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
- DECEMBER 13, 2009SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: ISLAMIST MILITANTS STONE MAN TO DEATH
witnesses in the town of Afgoye, southwest of Mogadishu, Somalia, said Islamist militants stoned to death a man accused of adultery. The militants apparently summoned the town's residents to watch the executions.
- DECEMBER 13, 2009SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: ISLAMIST MILITANTS EXECUTE MAN
witnesses in the town of Afgoye, southwest of Mogadishu, Somalia, said Islamist militants shot a man accused of murder. The militants apparently summoned the town's residents to watch the executions.
DECEMBER 1, 2009SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: SOLDIER GETS DEATH SENTENCE
a Somali soldier under Afrah Ali Afrah, commander of the Darawish troops in Mogadishu, was sentenced
NOVEMBER 17, 2009SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: ISLAMISTS STONE WOMAN TO DEATH FOR ADULTERY
Islamist rebels publicly stoned a woman to death and flogged a man 100 times for alleged adultery in southern Somalia.
- NOVEMBER 8, 2009SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALI MAN STONED TO DEATH
a man was stoned to death for adultery in Wanlaweyn town in the lower Shabelle region in Somalia “months ago”, according to the Mathaba.net and Mareeg.com websites.
- NOVEMBER 6, 2009SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALI ADULTERER STONED TO DEATH; LOVER WILL BE
Islamists in southern Somalia have stoned a man to death for adultery but spared his pregnant girlfriend until
OCTOBER 25, 2009SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: ISLAMIST REBELS EXECUTE TWO FOR ‘SPYING’
Somalia's Al Shabaab Islamist movement publicly executed two young men by firing squad for alleged spying for the Somali government in the southern town of Marka. An official from the group told crowds who gathered to watch the punishment that the men had
SEPTEMBER 28, 2009SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: ISLAMISTS EXECUTE TWO FOR SPYING
Somalia's hardline Shebab Islamists publicly executed two people accused of spying for the US Central
- SEPTEMBER 28, 2009SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: ISLAMISTS SENTENCE FRENCH NATIONAL TO DEATH
the Al-Shabab Islamic Movement in Somalia sentenced a French national adviser who is being held in
SEPTEMBER 28, 2009SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: BOSASO COURT SENTENCES DEFENDANT TO DEATH
The district court of Bosaso, in Puntland State of Somalia, sentenced one of five young defendants to
JULY 29, 2009SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: FIVE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN ABSENTIA FOR BOMBS
a court in the breakaway Somali province of Somaliland sentenced five men to death in
- JULY 12, 2009SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: AL SHABAAB DENY BEHEADINGS REPORT
Islamist hardliners in southern Somalia have rejected media reports that seven men