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
MAY 4, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: AL-SHABAB EXECUTES TWO MEN ‘FOR SPYING’
Al-Shabab militants in Somalia executed Mohamed Hassan Adam, 41, and Abdulahi
- MARCH 24, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
MILITARY COURT SENTENCES TWO SOMALI SOLDIERS TO DEATH
at a military court in Somalia, judge Hassan Mohammed Hussein “Mungab” sentenced soldiers Ali Mohamed Nur and Ahmed Mohammed Sahal to death for murdering two of their army colleagues in separate incidents.
MARCH 21, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: GALMUDUG COURT CARRIES OUT DEATH PENALTY
a court in the Galmudug administration of Southern Galkayo, Somalia, carried out a death
MARCH 21, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: AL SHABAAB DECAPITATES TWO TEENAGERS
Somalia’s al Qaeda-inspired group al Shabaab decapitated two Somali teenagers
- MARCH 6, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: AL SHABAAB EXECUTES TWO MEN
Somalia’s al Shabaab group executed Abdullahi Hajji Mohammed and Abdinasir Hussein Ali at Maslah
JANUARY 28, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: AL-SHABAAB EXECUTES SOMALI MAN ACCUSED OF SPYING FOR FBI
Al-Shabaab militants executed a Somali man in the center of Mogadishu, charging him
- JANUARY 15, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: THREE SOLDIERS EXECUTED IN MOGADISHU
a military court in Somalia executed three soldiers of transitional federal government on Saturday
- JANUARY 12, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: A COURT IN PUNTLAND SENTENCES POLICE OFFICER TO DEATH
at military court in Somalia's semi-autonomous province of Puntland, judge Dhame Abdikarim Hassan sentenced Puntland police officer Bashir Mohammed Farah to death for murder during Putland's war against terrorist militias in the mountainous Galagala area
- JANUARY 6, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
AL SHABAAB EXECUTES ENGLISH-SPEAKING MAN IN SOUTHERN SOMALIA FOR SPYING
in Goobweyne village in Somalia's Lower Jubba region...
- JANUARY 2, 2011YemenDEATH PENALTY
YEMEN HANDS DOWN DEATH SENTENCE TO SOMALI DRUG DEALER
the Primary Specialized Penal Court in Yemen's Hadramout province
- JANUARY 1, 2011SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
Somalia has been without central government since 1991...
Somalia has been without central government since 1991...
- DECEMBER 7, 2010SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
a soldier with Somalia's weak Transitional Federal Government...
a soldier with Somalia's weak Transitional Federal Government (TFG) was executed in Mogadishu after being convicted of killing another soldier.