The Transitional Federal Government officially comprises the executive branch of government, with the TFP serving as the legislative branch. The government is headed by the President of Somalia, to whom the cabinet reports through the Prime Minister. However, it is also used as a general term to refer to all three branches collectively.


In 2010, the UN International Monitoring Group (IMG) published a report [http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.... accusing the Somali government's security forces of being ineffective and corrupt, and claimed that up to half of the food aid that was destined for the conflict-stricken parts of the country were being misdirected. It also accused Somali officials of collaborating with pirates, UN contractors of helping insurgents, and the Eritrean government of still supporting rebel groups in southern Somalia despite earlier sanctions imposed on the former. Somalia's government and local businessmen, as well as United Nations officials and the Eritrean government all emphatically rejected the report's claims.

The reality is that the country is still in a state of civil war and, to answer your question, government - has we understand it in our society - doesn't really exist.