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
JULY 10, 2009SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: HARDLINE MILITIA BEHEAD TWO FOR BACKING GOVERNMENT
Somalia's hardline Shebab militia beheaded two men for supporting
- JUNE 9, 2009SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: AL SHABAAB EXECUTES A MAN IN BAIDOA
Al Shabaab militants, who control Mogadishu’s Baidoa town, the former seat of
MAY 13, 2009SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CALLS FOR URGENT ACTION AS PUNTLAND WOMAN FACES EXECUTION
Amnesty International said that Ifraah Ali Aden, 30, is in imminent danger of being
- APRIL 30, 2009SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: 2 MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR GOVERNOR'S KILLING
a court in Somalia's self-governing State of Puntland sentenced two men to death for
- APRIL 27, 2009SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
a pregnant woman was sentenced to death in the Puntland region of Somalia for the murder of another woman.
a pregnant woman was sentenced to death in the Puntland region of Somalia for the murder of another woman.
APRIL 18, 2009SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: PARLIAMENT APPROVES IMPLEMENTATION OF ISLAMIC SHARIA LAW
The Somali parliament unanimously approved a government proposal to introduce
- JANUARY 15, 2009SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALI EXECUTED FOR 'APOSTASY'
an Islamist militia in Somalia executed a Somali politician who they accused of betraying his religion by working with non-Muslim Ethiopian forces
- JANUARY 1, 2009SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
Somalia has been without central government since 1991...
Somalia has been without central government since 1991...
OCTOBER 31, 2008SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALI STONED TO DEATH WAS 13-YEAR-OLD RAPE VICTIM, GROUP SAYS
Amnesty International said that the girl stoned to death in Somalia this week was 13 years old, not 23,
OCTOBER 27, 2008SomaliaDEATH PENALTYWOMAN STONED IN SOUTHERN SOMALIA
thousands of people gathered to witness 50 Somali men stone a woman to death after an Islamic court in
- OCTOBER 12, 2008SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
a Somali court handed death sentences to three men convicted...
a Somali court handed death sentences to three men convicted...
APRIL 8, 2008SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA. SOLDIER PUBLICLY EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD
a soldier who was found guilty of murdering a fellow soldier was publicly