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
JUNE 11, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYKUWAIT. DEATH PENALTY DEMANDED FOR 34 MILITANTS
Kuwait’s public prosecutor demanded the death penalty for 34 of 37 militants suspected of links to Al Qaeda and deadly clashes with police in January 2005.
- APRIL 23, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. THE FAMILY OF A SOMALI MAN WHO WAS EXECUTED BY SAUDI ARABIA WANTS HIS BODY - AND ANSWERS
the last time Ali Hassan Ibrahim saw his son Abdul Fattah was in 1999, when the Somali teenager left a refugee camp in Kenya to join the legions of foreign workers in Saudi Arabia.
- APRIL 10, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTY
Saudis execute six men without sentence
Abshir Hassan, a 29 year old London man, accused Saudi Arabia of executing his brother, Abdul Fattah, and five other Somalis on April 1 without ever telling them that they had been condemned to death.
- APRIL 8, 2005SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SAUDI ARABIA. AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CONCERNED OVER EXECUTION OF FOREIGNERS
Amnesty International bitterly commented the execution of foreigners in Saudi Arabia
APRIL 4, 2005Saudi ArabiaDEATH PENALTYSAUDI ARABIA. SIX SOMALI NATIONALS EXECUTED
Saudi Arabia executed a gang of six Somali men convicted of abducting and robbing taxi drivers in the Red Sea port of Jeddah. The six men had lured taxi drivers to a remote spot where they hit them and threatened them with knives before robbing them and t
- JANUARY 1, 2005SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
Somalia has been without central government since 1991, when clans ousted dictator Siad Barre and the east African country sank into inter-clan fighting in which tens of thousands died.
Somalia has been without central government since 1991, when clans ousted dictator Siad Barre and the east African country sank into inter-clan fighting in which tens of thousands died.
- APRIL 11, 2004SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
Somalia has been without central government since 1991, when clans ousted dictator Siad Barre and the east African country sank into inter-clan fighting in which tens of thousands died.
Somalia has been without central government since 1991, when clans ousted dictator Siad Barre and the east African country sank into inter-clan fighting in which tens of thousands died.
- JULY 16, 2003SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
A court in Boosaaso, Somalia, sentenced to death four...
A court in Boosaaso, Somalia, sentenced to death four soldiers for committing murders in various parts of the region, the Somali daily Ayaamaha reported
- JANUARY 1, 2003SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
Somalia has been without central government since 1991,...
Somalia has been without central government since 1991, when clans ousted dictator Siad Barre and the east African country sank into inter-clan fighting in which tens of thousands died
- APRIL 12, 2002SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
An Ethiopian court sentenced five members of a Somali...
An Ethiopian court sentenced five members of a Somali Islamic group to be publicly hanged for killing 27 civilians in bomb attacks during the mid-1990s
- FEBRUARY 2, 2002SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
A Somali woman facing execution by stoning for adultery...
A Somali woman facing execution by stoning for adultery won a reprieve from the Federal Court from deportation to her homeland
- JANUARY 1, 2002SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
Somalia has been without central government since 1991,...
Somalia has been without central government since 1991, when clans ousted dictator Siad Barre and the east African country sank into inter-clan fighting in which tens of thousands died