Somalia Assumes Rotating Presidency of U.N. Security CouncilJohn Hayward 1 Jan 2026
The rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will be assumed on January 1 by Somalia – a barely functional state that has exported thousands of “refugees” to the rest of the world, accompanied by crime waves and social distortions.
U.N. Watch executive director Hillel Neuer highlighted the absurdity of handing over the presidency of the Security Council to “the #1 Worst Country in the World on the failed state index last year.”
“Al-Qaeda militia controls large parts of the country. Ninety-five percent of girls aged 4 to 11 in Somalia face genital mutilation,” Neuer noted.
“Somalia is a failed state that under 12 indicators was ranked the world’s worst on terrorism, corruption, inability to collect taxes, mass displacement, economic collapse, group grievance, brain drain, and chronic insecurity,” he continued.
“Somalia is a failed state controlled in large parts by al-Qaeda, and never should have been elected to the UN Security Council. By virtue of its absurd election – by a 93% majority of the U.N. vote – Somalia gets to hold the rotating monthly presidency,” he concluded.
Apologists for Somalia and/or the United Nations pointed out that the Security Council presidential rotation is a fairly automated bureaucratic process without any stringent requirements for the job, which is meant to be a simple functionary position that only lasts for one month.
As Neuer mentioned, Somalia was elected to a non-permanent seat on UNSC in June 2024, for the first time since its previous stint as a non-permanent member in the 1970s.
UNSC has five permanent members – the United States, United Kingdom, France, China, and Russia – plus ten rotating non-permanent members who are granted two-year terms by the vote of the U.N. General Assembly. The terms are staggered so that five non-permanent seats are up for a vote each year, and the seats are farmed out to different regions of the world. Somalia won the East African seat previously held by Mozambique in 2024, alongside new temporary members Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, and Panama.
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