I came to this conclusion after reading the Puntland administration's official website and the constant visits from foreign delegates to the country, and several key ladder movements.
A. Disputed Regions (Sool/Sanaag/Cayn) are distancing themselves from Puntland, or vice versa. This was what kept Somaliland from being independent and without this struggle with neighboring Somaliland, Puntland will find it easier to secede.
B. The oil drilling, beginning in January, could spell big things for the administration and the entire region.
C. The diplomatic relations of Puntland. Meeting with new UN delegates, international university delegates, and business partners around the globe. The administration is making far more diplomatic and economically internationalist moves than that of Somaliland, which comes off as a bit strange.
With those thoughts in mind, are we seeing something under the tables?