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
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: PUNTLAND COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH
the Bossaso First Degree Court in Somalia's Puntland region sentenced Jama Abdullahi Abdulle to death for killing judge Abdinasir Haji Aden in front of the courthouse on September 14, 2011. It was not immediately clear why Abdulle targeted the judge.
- SEPTEMBER 17, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
Somalia's military court has sentenced to death 15 soldiers...
Somalia's military court has sentenced to death 15 soldiers...
- AUGUST 28, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
the Somali military court has for the first time sentenced a woman...
the Somali military court has for the first time sentenced a woman...
- AUGUST 22, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: TWO SOLDIERS EXECUTED
two unidentified government soldiers were executed in Mogadishu, Somalia
- AUGUST 8, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
TWO SOMALI SOLDIERS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR LOOTING AFTER AL SHABAAB'S WITHDRAWAL FROM MOGADISHU
the military court of Somali transitional federal government sentenced soldiers Barre Ibrahim Mohamoud and Abdullahi Omar Adow to death.
JULY 25, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: MILITARY SENTENCES SOLDIER TO DEATH FOR MURDERING COLLEAGUE
the military court of Somalia's interim federal government sentenced to death a soldier
JULY 20, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: SOLDIER, WHO KILLED AHLU SUNNA FIGHTER, EXECUTED
one of Somali soldiers, who has intentionally slain a fighter loyal to Ahlu Sunna Waljama
- JUNE 18, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: AL SHABAB PUBLICLY EXECUTES 2 FOR SPYING
the court of Al-Shabaab in Daynile district in Mogadishu, Somalia, carried out the
JUNE 16, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB STONES A YOUNG MAN
Al-Shabaab court in Mahas district of Hiran region, in central Somalia, sentenced
- JUNE 4, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: MILITARY COURT EXECUTES GOVERNMENT SOLDIER
at a Mogadishu Military Court in Somalia, judge Hassan Mohammed Hussein sentenced
- MAY 13, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER RIGHTS SITUATION IN AFRICA
Amnesty International addressed the African commission on human and people’s rights on the state of the situation of human rights in Africa.
MAY 4, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: AL-SHABAB EXECUTES TWO MEN ‘FOR SPYING’
Al-Shabab militants in Somalia executed Mohamed Hassan Adam, 41, and Abdulahi