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[[Image:Somalia regions map Sool.svg|thumb|Location of Sool in Puntland/Somalia]]
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'''Sool''' ([[Somali language|Somali]]: ''Sool'') is a province located in the northeastern interior of the [[Horn of Africa]]. The regional capital of Sool is [[Las Anod]] (Laascaanood) and the region is historically known for the anti-colonial movement called [[Darwiish]].
==Territorial dispute==
{{main|Somaliland-Puntland dispute}}
Sool is a disputed region, claimed as [[sovereign]] territory by the two self-proclaimed but internationally-unrecognized states of [[Somaliland]] and [[Puntland]], as well as defined as part of the [[Somali Republic]] according to the 2004 [[Transitional Federal Charter]] of the [[Transitional Federal Government]] (TFG). During [[2006]], the [[Islamic Courts Union]] (ICU) also incorporated [[sharia]] courts in Sool region into their loose alliance, though their military forces never occupied the region.
Under the government of [[Siad Barre]], Sool was not a separate region, but part of the larger [[Nugaal]] province, with the capital city of [[Garowe]]. It was separated from Nugaal in the 1980s.<ref name=SOMALIA-1988>{{cite web
|title=Somalia (1988)
|url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/africa/somalia.jpg
|date=[[December 1988]]
|publisher=[[CIA]]
|accessdate=2007-02-21 }}</ref>
Since 2003 and until October 2007, Sool has been under control of Puntland.<ref name=territory_dispute>[http://www.somalilandtimes.net/sl/2005/211/22.shtml Puntland's control over parts of Somaliland]. ''The Somaliland Times''. February 1, 2006 (afrol News).</ref> After the conflict of 2007, Sool has stayed to be part of puntland, as the Dhulbahnte clan own by the Sool region of Somalia refused to become part of separtiest Somaliland State.{{Fact|date=October 2007}}
==Districts==
* [[Lasanod]] (A) (also [[Laascaanood]], Lasanood or Las Anod)
* [[Ainabo]] (C) ([[Caynaba]] or Aynabo)
* [[Taleh]] (C) ([[Taleex]])
* [[Hudun]] (C) ([[Xudun]])
* [[Boane]] (D) (also [[Boocame]] or Bo'ame)<ref name=BOCORD>{{cite web
|title=Bo`ame Community Organization for Relief and Development
|url=http://www.boocame.net/index.htm
|publisher=Boocame.net
|accessdate=2007-02-21 }}</ref>
* [[Yagori]] (D)
==See also==
* [[Somaliland]]
* [[Somalia]]
* [[Puntland]]
==References==
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