# Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Somalia (Wasaaradda Arrimaha Dibadda): embassies and diplomacy > What Somalia's foreign ministry does, who leads it, where Somalia has embassies, the main issues in 2024 to 2026, and what Somalis abroad can get from an embassy. Source page: https://calankii.com/en/institutions/ministry-of-foreign-affairs/ Last checked: 2026-11-12 Publisher: Calankii (https://calankii.com) ## What it does The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation speaks for the Federal Republic of Somalia abroad. It runs Somalia's embassies and consulates, takes part in the UN, the African Union, the Arab League, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, IGAD and the East African Community, and receives the credentials of foreign ambassadors in Mogadishu ([Ministry of Foreign Affairs](https://web.mfa.gov.so/); [Dawan Africa, EU ambassador](https://www.dawan.africa/news/somalia-receives-credentials-of-new-eu-ambassador-laszlo-mathe)). For the bodies Somalia belongs to, see [International bodies in Somalia](/en/institutions/international-bodies-in-somalia/). ## Who leads it - **Minister:** Abdisalam Abdi Ali, named on the ministry's own pages as minister in 2026 ([Ministry of Foreign Affairs](https://web.mfa.gov.so/?p=9081); [Oman Ministry of Foreign Affairs, April 2026](https://www.fm.gov.om/en/62048/)). - **State Minister:** Ali [Mohamed Omar](/en/people/mohamed-omar-1999/) ([Dawan Africa, July 2026](https://www.dawan.africa/news/somalia-outlines-strategy-to-safeguard-territorial-unity)). - **Deputy Minister:** Hassan Mohamed Ali "Nadaara" ([Ministry of Foreign Affairs](https://web.mfa.gov.so/)). Earlier foreign ministers are listed on [foreign ministers of Somalia](/en/institutions/foreign-ministers-of-somalia/). ## Where Somalia has missions The ministry publishes a "Find our embassy abroad" list ([Ministry of Foreign Affairs](https://web.mfa.gov.so/find-our-embassy-abroad/)). A list compiled from it counts 41 embassies, 3 consulates-general and permanent missions to the UN in New York and Geneva ([List of diplomatic missions of Somalia, Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diplomatic_missions_of_Somalia)): - **Africa (17):** Algiers, Bujumbura, Djibouti, Cairo, Asmara, Addis Ababa, Nairobi, Tripoli, Rabat, Abuja, Dakar, Pretoria, [Juba](/en/economy/farming-and-harvests/), Khartoum, Dar es Salaam, Kampala, Lusaka. - **Americas (2):** Washington and Havana. - **Asia and the Middle East (17):** Baku, Beijing, New Delhi, Jakarta, Baghdad, [Kuwait](/en/diaspora/kuwait/) City, Kuala Lumpur, Muscat, Islamabad, Doha, Riyadh, Jeddah (consulate-general), Damascus, Ankara, Abu Dhabi, Dubai (consulate-general), Aden (consulate-general). - **Europe (8):** Brussels, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Moscow, Belgrade, Stockholm, [London](/en/diaspora/london/). Countries without a Somali embassy are usually covered by a neighbouring one; the embassy in Algiers, for example, also covers Mauritania and Tunisia (same source). ## Main issues, 2024 to 2026 - **UN Security Council:** Somalia sat on the Council for 2025 and 2026, its first seat since 1971 to 1972, and held its presidency in January 2026 ([International bodies in Somalia](/en/institutions/international-bodies-in-somalia/)). - **Ethiopia and [Somaliland](/en/states/somaliland-1991-to-2026/), 2024:** the ministry treated the January 2024 memorandum between Ethiopia and Somaliland as a threat to Somalia's territorial integrity, and sought support from regional and international bodies; talks led to the Ankara Declaration. The State Minister set out this "sovereignty diplomacy" in July 2026, naming diplomacy, legal means such as the Kenya sea-border case at the International Court of Justice, and the East African Community as its main tools ([Dawan Africa, 26 July 2026](https://www.dawan.africa/news/somalia-outlines-strategy-to-safeguard-territorial-unity)). - **Israel and Somaliland, 2025 to 2026:** Israel recognised Somaliland on 26 December 2025. On 4 November 2026 the ministry condemned Israel's reported appointment of an ambassador to Hargeisa and the start of an embassy building, called the steps "null and void", said opening a mission needs the host state's consent under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, and noted that the African Union, IGAD, the Arab League and the OIC had rejected the recognition ([Shabelle Media via AllAfrica, 4 November 2026](https://allafrica.com/stories/202611040327.html)). Somaliland declared independence in 1991; most states and the African Union regard it as part of Somalia. See [Somaliland's institutions](/en/institutions/somaliland-institutions/). ## How to use it - **Somalis abroad:** embassies take passport applications and renewals by appointment for the Immigration and Citizenship Agency, which issues the passport, and some embassies, including Nairobi and Pretoria, have NIRA national ID service centres. See [Somali passport](/en/states/somali-passport/) and [National ID (NIRA)](/en/states/national-id-nira/). - **Contact:** the ministry's website lists each embassy's address and phone number. ## Its legal basis The 2012 Provisional Constitution, which gives foreign affairs to the federal government (Article 54), as amended in 2024 and 2026; the Vienna Conventions on Diplomatic and Consular Relations. --- I want to help with this: email hello@calankii.com. Fix this page: email hello@calankii.com with the page link and your source.