Somalia

Somalia submitted its first Article 4 deadline extension request in December 2024 and then updated versions in April and June 2025, requesting a four-year extension to 1 March 2030. The request was due to be considered at the Thirteenth Meeting of States Parties in September 2025. 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 2024, and none has taken place since limited clearance in 2022.

• Somalia should ensure timely survey and clearance of CMR in accordance with its Convention on Cluster Munitions (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 a new national mine action strategy to replace its plan for 2018–20.
• Somalia should elaborate a gender and diversity policy and implementation plan for the mine action programme.
• Somalia should elaborate an environmental policy and implementation plan for the programme.

Click here to download the full "Clearing Cluster Munition Remnants 2025" report for Somalia.