Somalia
2026
- GOVERNMENT
- transitional federal-parliamentary government: there is no permanent national government
- CONSTITUTION
- September 23, 1979
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- there is no national system; a mix of English common law, Italian law, Islamic law, and traditional Somali norms
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, National Assembly
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- not operational: following the fall of the National Government, many regions reintroduced Islamic law and Somali customary law, with the possibility of appeal
RELIGIONS
Sunni Muslims
From the country
JANUARY 6, 2015SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB MILITANTS EXECUTED FOUR INFORMERS
Al-Shabaab militants executed four people accused of spying for the United States, Ethiopia and the
- JANUARY 4, 2015SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB BEHEADS A TEENAGER FOR SPYING
- JANUARY 1, 2015SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
The penal code of Somalia represents an amalgam of various legal systems and traditions.
The penal code of Somalia represents an amalgam of various legal systems and traditions.
- DECEMBER 23, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB EXECUTE YOUNG MAN FOR SUSPECTED SPYING
Al Shabaab militants have executed a young man for suspected spying for the Federal Government of
DECEMBER 4, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: MILITARY COURT EXECUTES THREE MEN IN MOGADISHU
Somali military court executed three men convicted of killing innocent civilians in the country. One among
- DECEMBER 2, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB MILITANTS EXECUTE WOMAN ACCUSED OF SPYING
Al-Shabaab militants executed by firing squad a woman accused of espionage, the Islamist group and a
NOVEMBER 22, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: JUBALAND MILITARY COURT EXECUTES SOLDIER FOR MURDER
Jubaland military court executed a soldier convicted of killing a 9-year-old boy in the southern port city of
- NOVEMBER 17, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: PUNTLAND COURT SENTENCES SIX MEN TO DEATH FOR AL-SHABAAB LINKS
Puntland military court sentenced six men to death after being found of guilty linked to Somalia’s militant
- NOVEMBER 12, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: MILITARY COURT SENTENCES TWO OFFICERS TO DEATH
Somali military court has sentenced two soldiers to death sentences for murder and rape cases respectively.
- NOVEMBER 5, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH AFTER HE BEHEADED A UNIVERSITY STUDENT
The Banadir Regional Court sentenced to death a man who was found guilty of killing a university student
- OCTOBER 26, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: PUBLIC EXECUTION FOR TWO CONVICTED MURDERERS
Two men convicted of murdering a journalist and a security official were executed in public in Somalia's
OCTOBER 21, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: ISLAMIST MILITANTS STONE 18-YEAR-OLD TO DEATH FOR RAPE
Al-Shabaab militants in southern Somalia publicly stoned an 18-year-old boy to death after he was accused of rape. The teenager, named as Hassan Ahmed Ali, was accused of raping a 28-year-old woman at gunpoint and sentenced to death by a local judge, Al