Somalia

In 2025, Somalia was granted a four-year extension to its Article 4 deadline under the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM), with a new deadline set for 1 March 2030.Final Report of the Thirteenth Meeting of States Parties to the CCM, 16-19 September 2025, p. 9. Along with a persistent lack of funding, lack of access to cluster munition-contaminated areas due to ongoing insecurity continued to prevent survey as well as any clearance of cluster munition remnants (CMR) in 2025, and none has taken place since limited clearance in 2022.

• Somalia should ensure timely survey and clearance of CMR in accordance with its CCM obligations.

• Somalia should elaborate a comprehensive baseline of CMR contamination as soon as security conditions allow access to affected areas.

• Somalia should make known its financial and resource requirements for mine action, including estimated costs for CMR survey and clearance, even while affected areas remain inaccessible.

• Somalia should finalise and formally approve the new national mine action strategy, currently under development, to replace its plan for 2018–20.

Click here to download the full "Clearing Cluster Munition Remnants 2026" report for Somalia.