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
AUGUST 7, 2014KenyaDEATH PENALTYKENYA: AL-SHABAAB SUSPECT TO BE EXTRADITED TO SOMALIA
Kenya has agreed to Somalia's request to extradite a Somali citizen believed to be senior al-Shabaab
AUGUST 3, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: THREE MEN CONVICTED OF AL-SHABAB TERROR ATROCITIES ARE EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD
Three men involved in a deadly terrorist attack on the Presidential Palace in Mogadishu have been executed
- JULY 24, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: COURT CARRIES OUT DEATH PENALTY AGAINST FOUR SHABAB FIGHTERS
Somalia’s military court carried out the death penalty against four Shabab fighters founded guilty of ant-
JULY 23, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB EXECUTES 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL IN DINSOR
Al-Shabaab militants in Dinsor, in Somalia's Bay region, publically executed a 14-year-old girl accused of
- JULY 15, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: ALLEGED AL-SHABAAB MEMBERS EXECUTED
Two alleged members of Al-Shabaab militia convicted of murdering a female student were executed by
JULY 13, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: AL SHABAAB EXECUTE TWO YOUNG MEN IN BARAWE
Somali islamist militants al Shabaab executed two Somali young men in Barawe, the main military base for
JULY 7, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: MILITARY COURT SENTENCES AL-SHABAAB MEMBER TO DEATH
Liban Ali Yarow, Somali Military Court Chairman, sentenced Awiye Ahmed Jama’ to death for a bomb
- JUNE 15, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB BEHEADS MAN FOR DRUG
Al-Shabaab militant group beheaded a man who they found guilty of possessing khat, a narcotic stimulus
- JUNE 2, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: AL SHABAB EXECUTES FORMER MEMBERS FOR SPYING
Three men accused of spying for foreign governments were executed by the Somali terror group Al Shabab.
JUNE 1, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: PUNTLAND COURT HANDS OUT DEATH SENTENCE TO AL SHABAAB MEMBER
A military court in Somalia's North Eastern State of Puntland has handed out death sentence to Al Shabaab
- MAY 29, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: AL SHABAAB EXECUTES THREE MEN IN LOWER SHABELLE REGION
Somalia’s al Shabaab militant group has executed three men accused of being spies for the federal
- MAY 25, 2014SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB MEMBER EXECUTED WITHOUT TRAIL AFTER MILITARY COURT ORDER
A 21-year-old man suspected to be member of Al-Shabaab was shot to death in Dayniile district where he was caught by the Somali armed forces.