US OFFERS TWO $10 MILLION REWARDS FOR SOMALIA’S AL-SHABAAB

Mon 14 November 2022:

Following a string of deadly strikes by the terror group, the United States said on Monday that it was boosting its reward for information about important Al-Shabaab leaders in Somalia to $10 million.

Additionally, the US State Department declared that it was for the first time providing a reward of up to $10 million for information that “leading to the disruption of the financial mechanisms” of the Al-Qaeda affiliate.

Al-Shabaab militants have stepped up attacks in the Somali capital Mogadishu and other parts of the country in the face of a widescale offensive against the group by the new government of President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.

The US said it was offering up to $10 million each for information leading to the identification of Al-Shabaab “emir” Ahmed Diriye, second-in-command Mahad Karate and Jehad Mostafa, a US citizen who it said had various roles in the group.

The State Department designated Al-Shabaab as a foreign terrorist organisation in March 2008.

Mostafa, a US citizen who formerly resided in California, is alleged to have served as an explosives expert, a leader of foreign fighters, a media figurehead, a intermediary for other “terrorist organizations,” and a military instructor at Al-Shabaab training camps, according to the US.

He was charged in a US court in December 2019 with several offenses related to Al-Shabaab.

“The FBI assesses Mostafa to be the highest-ranking terrorist with US citizenship fighting overseas.”

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