Prime Minister of Somalia

The list of prime minister of Somalia includes all carriers of this title of the independence of Somalia in June / July 1960 to the present.

After the outbreak of the Civil War there was no functioning central government for more extended periods of time. The transitional Somali government, founded on the initiative of the international community was indeed regarded internationally as the legitimate representative of the country at the United Nations and other organizations, but controlled only vanishingly small fraction of the former territory.

After military intervention of neighboring countries Kenya and Ethiopia against the militant Islamist al -Shabaab (Somalia) and corresponding success of Somali militias and clans that support a recovery of Somalia, it was agreed in autumn 2012 on a new constitution as a federal state. Since then, the thus newly created federal government's effort to rebuild state functions and the involvement of other clans and groups.

Of the various progressively emerged in the field of autonomous De facto states, although the respective incumbent was often not recognized or the transitional government was generally denied the right to cast. However, the office of Somali Prime Minister as such not stood in doubt. An exception is Somaliland, which no longer considers itself since its inception in 1991 as a part of Somalia and for the area controlled by him a different system of government has set up without the post of Prime Minister.

Office continued after his resignation.

Under the government of Siad Barre, the Prime minister was abolished from 1 November 1969 to February 1, 1987.