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1998Â Â Â Â Â Â Abdulahhi
Yusuf (Yussuf) was elected by elders in Puntland. Yusuf was later
challenged by Jama Ali Jama.
   (SSFC, 1/6/02, p.A7)
2001Â Â Â Â Â Â Nov 25, Ethiopia sent
troops into the northeastern Somali region of Puntland to help Col.
Abdullahi Yussuf (Yusuf) regain power. Yussuf was overthrown Aug 26
after his 3-year term ended. On Nov 21 Yussuf launched an attack on
Garoweh, the capital of Puntland and said it was to crush Islamic
terrorists.
   (SFC, 11/26/01, p.A11)(WSJ, 11/28/01, p.A10)
2005Â Â Â Â Â Â Aug 31, Some 200 Somalis
and Ethiopians left Somalia's semiautonomous Puntland region in two
boats. Smugglers making the illegal crossing from Somalia to Yemen
forced passengers into the Red Sea at gunpoint 10 miles from the
Yemeni coastline, leaving at least 57 dead and about 100 missing.
   (AP, 9/5/05)
2006Â Â Â Â Â Â Nov 20, Gen. Addeh Museh,
the president of the semiautonomous region of Puntland, said he will
rule according to Islamic law, a surprising move in a relatively
stable area that has resisted the spread of Islamic militants who
control most of southern Somalia.
   (AP, 11/20/06)
2008Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 29, In northern
Somalia 5 suicide car bombs attacks killed 28 people in Hargeisa,
the capital of Somaliland, and in Bosasso, Puntland. Somali
authorities arrested Cleric Sheik Mohamed Ismail in connection with
the attacks.
   (AP, 10/30/08)(SFC, 10/30/08, p.A4)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â Nov 11, In Somalia gunmen
in Bossaso killed High Court Judge Mohamed Abdi Aware, a top judge
who had sentenced many pirates and human traffickers to long jail
terms. 3 men were arrested the next day over the killing. Puntland
legislator Ibrahim Ilmi Warsame was also shot dead as he sat in a
restaurant with friends.
   (AP, 11/12/09)
2011Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 2, Puntland soldiers
raided neighborhoods searching for gunmen linked to Al
Qaeda-inspired Shebab militants. At least 21 people were killed and
31 others wounded in two days of heavy fighting on the border of
Somalia proper and the breakaway state of Puntland.
   (AFP, 9/2/11)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 18, Somalia's
disparate leaders agreed on the basic structure of a new parliament
and government to replace the fragile transitional body that has
failed to bring peace to the war-torn country. The accord proposed a
parliamentary system for anarchic Somalia, with both Puntland and
Galmudug recognized as states within a federal system.
   (AFP, 2/19/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 28, In Dubai Somali
President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and his counterpart Ahmed Mohamed
Silanyo of Somaliland agreed to boost cooperation between their
different factions. The two men signed the "Dubai Charter" in the
presence of the leaders of Puntland and Galmudug, two
self-proclaimed autonomous regions in Somalia.
   (AFP, 6/28/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Jul 20, Puntland security
forces of the semi-autonomous region in northern Somalia seized a
boat carrying weapons that were being smuggled from al-Qaida
militants in Yemen to fighters in Somalia.
   (AP, 7/21/12)
2012Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec 23, Puntland forces,
after a two-week siege, captured back the Panamanian-flagged MV
Iceberg 1 and rescued 22 hostages who had been held by pirates since
May 29, 2010. The hijackers had killed a Yemeni sailor who tried to
escape. The pirates near the coastal village of Gara’ad escaped.
   (SFC, 12/24/12, p.A2)(AP, 12/29/12)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 11, Somali police said
a suicide car bomb attack targeting a senior Puntland police
commander in Galkayo killed only the bomber.
   (AP, 2/11/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 30, In the Puntland
region of Somalia 13 prisoners were executed by firing squad on the
outskirts of Bossaso. One soldier who helped carry out the execution
died after being struck by an errant bullet fired by a colleague.
   (AP, 4/30/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Jul 7, In Somalia
journalist Liban Abdullahi Farah was gunned down in Galkayo,
Puntland province. He was the 6th journalist to die violently in
Somalia this year.
   (Econ, 8/3/13, p.44)(http://tinyurl.com/oafs6e7)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Nov 9, A tropical cyclone
hit Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region. As many as 300 people
were feared dead. Hundreds remained unaccounted for as the
government and declared a natural disaster emergency.
   (Reuters, 11/11/13)(AFP, 11/13/13)
2013Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec 5, In Somalia at least
8 people were killed when a suicide car bomber rammed a convoy in
the northern port of Bossasso, a Puntland region harboring
Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents where tensions are high ahead of
elections in January.
   (AFP, 12/5/13)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 8, Officials in the
semi-autonomous Somalia region of Puntland confirmed Abdiweli
Mohammed Ali Gaas, a former Somali prime minister, as the region's
new leader.
   (AP, 1/8/14)(AFP, 1/8/14)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 7, Puntland area
regional President Abdiweli Mohamed said 20 al Shabaab rebels and
five soldiers have been killed in fighting in the past week in the
Galgala hills. Al Shabaab's military spokesman, Sheikh Abdiasis Abu
Musab, said the group had killed 23 soldiers in three days of
clashes and that fighting was continuing.
   (Reuters, 1/7/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 14, In Puntland, a
region of northern Somalia, Islamist fighters killed at least two
officers at a police post in Basasso port town, as the militants,
driven out of areas further south, make more frequent attacks in the
semi-autonomous north.
   (Reuters, 1/15/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 7, In Puntland at
least 2 people were killed when Somali militants al Shabaab attacked
the house of a senior police official in the semi-autonomous region.
   (Reuters, 2/8/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 18, Somalia's Shebab
shot dead a lawmaker in Mogadishu. Adan Haji Hussein, a visiting MP
in the semi-autonomous northern Puntland region, was killed “for
being a member of the apostate administration.”
   (AFP, 4/18/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 20, Somali militant
group al Shabaab bombed a minivan carrying staff to a UN office in
the semi-autonomous Puntland region, killing 9 people including 4
from the global body's children's fund UNICEF.
   (Reuters, 4/20/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â May 4, Somalia's al
Shabaab militants stormed a police station in the country's
semi-autonomous region of Puntland and killed 3 policemen.
   (Reuters, 5/5/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â May 8, Puntland lawmaker
Said Hussein Nur was shot dead as he left a mosque after evening
prayers. Al-Shebab claimed responsibility.
   (AFP, 5/9/15)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 14, Somali al Shabaab
fighters seized a small port in the semi-autonomous Puntland region,
the latest sign of a resurgence in activity by the Islamist
militants in the Horn of Africa nation.
   (Reuters, 3/15/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Nov 6, In Somalia a
week-old ceasefire between the forces of the semi-autonomous regions
of Galmudug and Puntland broke down as fighting over a disputed
border area erupted again, killing at least 19 soldiers.
   (Reuters, 11/6/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Nov 19, Somalia's PM Omar
Sharmarke said he had secured a ceasefire between two warring
regions in the Horn of Africa nation, two weeks after a peace deal
collapsed leading to fighting that killed at least 29 people.
Sharmarke met Galmudug President Abdikarim Hussein Guled and
Puntland President Abdiweli Mohamed Ali over the last week and
witnessed a troop pull-back from the area where they clashed.
   (Reuters, 11/19/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Nov 28, Aid agencies said
a second poor rainy season in Somalia has pushed livestock herders
in the drought-hit Puntland region to trek an average of 60 km (40
miles) to fetch drinking water and called for rapid action to
prevent renewed famine.
   (Reuters, 11/28/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec 3, In northern Somalia
soldiers in Puntland allied to the Western-backed government killed
seven insurgents from a faction loyal to the Islamic State group.
The Puntland forces were attacked in the village of Bashaashin.
   (Reuters, 12/3/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec 5, In northern Somalia
soldiers allied to the Western-backed Somali government killed three
fighters loyal to the Islamic State in Puntland as they pressed
ahead toward the insurgents' main stronghold.
   (Reuters, 12/5/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec 25, In Somalia's
semi-autonomous Puntland region Al Shabaab Islamist militants in
Bosasso shot dead military prosecutor Abdikarim Hassan Firdiye.
   (Reuters, 12/25/16)
2016Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec, In Puntland six
teenage boys forced the girls, aged 14 and 16, into a car and drove
them close to the Ethiopian border where they stripped and raped
them, taking photographs and video. Clan elders initially proposed
that the perpetrators' families pay each of the girls' families 100
camels in compensation - an offer they rejected.
   (Reuters, 1/19/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 13, Pirates operating
off the coast of Somalia hijacked the Aris 13 oil tanker, marking
the first time since 2012 that a commercial vessel has been captured
by Somali pirates. Eight Sri Lankan crew members were taken captive.
   (AP, 3/15/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 16, Somali pirates who
seized an oil tanker opened fire on naval troops from the
semiautonomous state of Puntland, sparking clashes between the two
sides. The pirates were continuing to receive reinforcements while
regional forces mobilizing nearby.
   (AP, 3/16/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 24, Puntland police
said pirates have seized control of a Somali fishing boat to use as
a base from which to attack larger ships.
   (Reuters, 3/24/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 8, Somalia's
semi-autonomous Puntland region executed five people it said were
Islamist militants responsible for killing three senior government
officials last year.
   (Reuters, 4/8/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 23, In Somalia's
semiautonomous state of Puntland a roadside bomb in the remote town
of Galgala killed eight soldiers and injured three others.
   (AP, 4/23/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â May 23, The mayor of a
Puntland town said Somali pirates hijacked an unlicensed Iranian
fishing vessel to use as a base to attack bigger, more valuable
ships, part of an upsurge in attacks following years of relative
calm.
   (AP, 5/23/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 8, Officials said
heavily armed al-Shabab extremists have stormed a military base in
Somalia's semiautonomous state of Puntland, killing close to 70
people and wounding dozens more. Residents said civilians, including
women, were beheaded during the rampage.
   (AP, 6/8/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 1, In Somalia's
Puntland region an al Shabaab bomb attack killed 12 people,
including five soldiers.
   (Reuters, 9/1/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 24, In Somalia's
semi-autonomous region of Puntland a wheelbarrow exploded outside a
police station in Bossaso, killing the lone man pushing it.
   (Reuters, 10/24/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec 12, Puntland army
Colonel Osman Abshir Omar, who also headed the region's bomb
disposal unit, was killed after a roadside bomb he was defusing
exploded.
   (Reuters, 12/12/17)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â May 24, Tensions in the
unrecognized breakaway northern state of Somaliland and the
semi-autonomous Somali state of Puntland erupted into violence
around the border town of Tukaraq in Sool, a disputed desert region
claimed by both sides. Troops from both camps were reported killed.
   (AFP, 5/26/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 1, Somalia's militant
Islamist group al Shabaab retook Muqokori, a small town in the
center of the country after it was abandoned by government troops.
Shabaab militants also attacked a military base in the
semi-autonomous region of Puntland the same day, killing several
soldiers.
   (Reuters, 6/2/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Jul 20, Somalia's Islamist
militant group al Shabaab captured Af Urur, a small but strategic
town 100 km (60 miles) south of Bosaso city in the semi-autonomous
Puntland region. Puntland military forces had left the town a day
earlier.
   (Reuters, 7/20/18)
2018Â Â Â Â Â Â Aug 17, Military forces of
Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region said they have retaken a
strategic town from Islamic militant group al Shabaab.
   (Reuters, 8/17/18)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Jan 8, Puntland, a region
of war-ravaged Somalia, elected a new president, a peaceful transfer
of power in a part of the country notorious for piracy and Islamist
militias. Said Abdullahi Deni defeated his closest rival, Asad Osman
Abdullahi and was sworn in for a new five-year term.
   (Reuters, 1/8/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Feb 4, Somalia's
Al-Shabaab militants shot dead Paul Anthony Formosa, the Maltese
manager of the Bossaso port in semi-autonomous Puntland state, and
detonated a car bomb in Mogadishu, killing at least nine people.
Al-Shabab soon claimed responsibility.
   (AFP, 2/4/19)(SFC, 2/5/19, p.A2)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 26, In Somalia's
semi-autonomous Puntland region a US air strike killed three
fighters from the Islamic State on the outskirts of Timirshe
village.
   (AP, 4/27/19)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â May 8, In Puntland, a
semi-autonomous region of Somalia, a US air strike killed 13 Islamic
State fighters, days after another strike killed three.
   (Reuters, 5/10/19)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â May 8, In Somalia an
unspecified number of people were killed when floods washed away an
entire small town in the semi-autonomous Puntland region.
   (AP, 5/8/20)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â May 17, In Puntland, a
semi-autonomous state Somalia, Ahmed Muse Nur, the governor of
Mudug, was killed along with three of his bodyguards in a suicide
car bombing that was claimed by Islamist group al Shabaab.
   (Reuters, 5/17/20)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 17, A doctor in
Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland said that between five
and 10 of his Covid patients were dying because of a lack of oxygen
almost every day. In Somalia up to 25 people were dying each day in
one hospital because of a lack of oxygen.
   (BBC, 6/17/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 27, Somalia's
semi-autonomous state of Puntland executed 21 men after they were
convicted of being members of the Islamist militant group al-Shabab.
As the executions were being carried out, al-Shabab fighters stormed
the town of Wisil in the Mudug region. There are some reports that
at least 20 soldiers were killed when an army base was attacked.
   (AP, 6/27/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Sep 3, Somalia's
semi-autonomous region of Puntland said it had sent forces to the
neighboring region of Galmudug to help the military there push al
Shabaab Islamist militants out of a strategic town they captured
last month.
   (Reuters, 9/3/21)
2021Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec 21, Fighting between
elements of Somali pro-government forces killed at least seven
people and injured 50 in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland.
   (Reuters, 12/22/21)
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