Somalia
A combined view of Somalia's UN General Assembly speeches, treaty commitments, and voting record.
The narrative paragraphs below are AI-generated syntheses of the data shown — the tables and figures themselves come directly from the underlying records, not from the AI.
Compare with another country →Speech history
Somalia's General Assembly rhetoric has evolved from heavily plea-driven appeals in 2007–2009 toward increasingly balanced statements mixing self-reported state-building progress with sustained calls for international support. Between 2012 and 2017, the country demonstrated rising self-accountability (peaking at 74 in 2013–2014) while maintaining high multilateralism scores, reflecting a transitional period of institutional confidence. After 2018, Somalia recalibrated toward either narrower self-focused concerns (2018) or broader multilateral appeals (2021–2025), with a notable 2024 pivot to forceful sovereignty rhetoric against Ethiopia amid sustained commitments to reform. Throughout, emotional intensity has remained variable but generally elevated, particularly during crisis-heavy periods (2010, 2014–2015, 2024).
| Session | Multilateralism | Emotional intensity | Concreteness | Self-accountability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | High | Medium | Medium | Low |
| 2008 | High | Medium | Medium | Low |
| 2009 | High | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2010 | High | High | High | Low |
| 2011 | High | High | High | High |
| 2012 | High | High | Medium | High |
| 2013 | High | High | High | High |
| 2014 | Medium | High | High | High |
| 2015 | Medium | High | Medium | High |
| 2016 | High | Medium | High | High |
| 2017 | High | High | Medium | Medium |
| 2018 | Low | Medium | High | Medium |
| 2021 | Very High | Medium | Low | Medium |
| 2022 | High | High | Medium | High |
| 2023 | High | Medium | High | Medium |
| 2024 | High | High | Medium | High |
| 2025 | Very High | High | Medium | High |
Treaty status
Full treaty record →Somalia has demonstrated strong commitment to environmental and human rights treaties, ratifying 18 of 24 tracked instruments. The country shows particular dedication to climate and desertification frameworks—core concerns for its Horn of Africa context—ratifying all five major environmental agreements from the Montreal Protocol through the Paris Agreement. Human rights commitments are solid across torture, child rights, and disability protections, though notably absent on gender discrimination. Arms control remains a weak point: Somalia has taken no action on nuclear arms treaties and the Arms Trade Treaty, and has only signed (not ratified) the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, likely reflecting its fragile security environment and piracy concerns.
Arms control & security
- Arms Trade TreatyNo action
- Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban TreatySigned, not ratified
- Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their DestructionRatified
- Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear WeaponsNo action
Environment & climate
- Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their DisposalRatified
- Convention on Biological DiversityRatified
- Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone LayerRatified
- Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeRatified
- Minamata Convention on MercuryNo action
- Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone LayerRatified
- Paris AgreementRatified
- Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International TradeRatified
- Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic PollutantsRatified
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in AfricaRatified
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeRatified
Human rights
- Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or PunishmentRatified
- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against WomenNo action
- Convention on the Rights of Persons with DisabilitiesRatified
- Convention on the Rights of the ChildRatified
- International Covenant on Civil and Political RightsRatified
International justice
- Rome Statute of the International Criminal CourtNo action
Trade & governance
- United Nations Convention against CorruptionRatified
- United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized CrimeRatified
- United Nations Convention on the Law of the SeaRatified
Voting record
Full voting record →Somalia is a reliably consensus-supporting voter, with 3,493 yes votes (64% of its voting record) across 5,458 General Assembly votes and only 42 recorded no votes. The country's rare dissents include opposition to agricultural technology resolutions (2009) and Cyprus-related measures (1983), both outlying positions that suggest occasional sovereignty or regional interest-driven exceptions. Somalia's high abstention and non-voting rates (32% combined) may reflect administrative capacity constraints during periods of state fragility, though these have not prevented consistent alignment with majority positions when voting does occur.
Notable dissents from consensus
Agricultural technology for development : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
2009-12-21 · voted N · 99% voted yes
Question of Cyprus : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly
1983-05-13 · voted N · 95% voted yes
Human development
Full HDI record →Human Development Index: 0.404 (Low), ranked #192 globally in 2023.
Combines life expectancy, education, and income into one comparable score, 0 to 1. Source: UNDP Human Development Report 2025 — deterministic figures, not AI-generated.
2022–2023