{"id":1528,"date":"2016-06-20T12:27:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T12:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.hennhoneyball.com\/somalia\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T20:06:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:06:25","slug":"somalia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/east-africa\/somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--Replace this line with additional country information.-->The determination of Somali citizenship is complicated by the fact that Somalia has lacked functioning governing institutions for the past decades.<\/p>\n<p>However, citizenship in Somalia is nominally regulated by the country\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/law-no-28-of-22-december-1962-on-somali-citizenship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1962 citizenship law,<\/a> which provides that citizenship can be provided to anyone whose father is Somali or who is ethnically Somali and who renounces claim to any other nationality. However, while the 1962 law does not permit dual nationality, the <a href=\"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/somalia-provisional-constitution-2012\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">provisional constitution of 2012 <\/a>allowed Somalis to hold another nationality; as does the <a href=\"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/constitution-of-the-federal-republic-of-somalia-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new constitution finally adopted in 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Somalis who are <a href=\"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/statelessness-and-citizenship-in-the-horn-of-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">members of ethnic or occupational minorities<\/a> face significant discrimination and are at heightened risk of statelessness.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the region of Somaliland adopted legislation relating to citizenship in <a href=\"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/somaliland-citizenship-law-2002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2002<\/a>. This legislation confers citizenship on persons whose father was a descendent of a person resident on the territory in 1960. However, the effectiveness of this law depends in part on the extent to which Somaliland is recognized as a state, or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The determination of Somali citizenship is complicated by the fact that Somalia has lacked functioning governing institutions for the past decades. However, citizenship in Somalia is nominally regulated by the country\u2019s 1962 citizenship law, which provides that citizenship can be provided to anyone whose father is Somali or who is ethnically Somali and who renounces [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3695,"parent":1488,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1528","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43545,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1528\/revisions\/43545"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}