The applicant, a Somalian man, applied for international protection in France and the OFPRA rejected his application. The applicant contested this decision before the CNDA, requesting the court to grant him refugee status, alternatively subsidiary protection. Upon analysing the applicant's declarations, the CNDA concluded that they did not suffice to establish his qualification as a refugee under the 1951 Refugee Convention. Turning to subsidiary protection, the CNDA noted that the applicant came from the region of Lower Shabelle and would also have to go through to the region of Benadir if returned to his country of origin. The CNDA applied the EUAA's Country Guidance on Somalia from August 2023: it noted that although the security situation in Benadir and Lower Shabelle did not reach the level of indiscriminate violence prescribed by article 15(c) of the Qualification Directive to establish that a person faces a serious and individual threat to their life or person from their mere presence there, it is such that a lower threshold of elements of individualisation is required for subsidiary protection to be granted. In this case, the CNDA concluded that the applicant's circumstances did justify the application of subsidiary protection, notably in light of his young age and the total absence of family links in Somalia since his mother's disappearance.