- The U.S. State Department added five senior members of the African Jihad Group to its terrorist blacklist on Friday.
- Members are prohibited from accessing any property or interests that they may have in the United States.
- The State Department’s list will freeze any assets that individuals may have in the United States and criminalize helping them.
The U.S. State Department added five allegedly senior members of the African Jihad Group to its terrorist blacklist on Friday, preventing them from accessing any property or interests that may be owned in the United States.
U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Brinken said in a statement that the leader of this reinforcement was the senior commander of ISIS Mozambique, Bonomad Machud Omar. Fatal attack.
According to reports, in the Palma attack, jihadists beheaded residents and ransacked buildings, killing at least 12 people and displacing more than 8,000 people. Brinken said Omar was also responsible for other attacks in Mozambique and Tanzania.
Also included in the State Department’s Specially Designated Global Terrorist List are Sidan ag Hitta and Salem ould Breihmatt, senior leaders of Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM), a branch of Al-Qaida in Mali.
Ali Mohamed Rage, spokesperson for the extremist radical organization Al Shabaab, and Abdikadir Mohamed Abdikadir, an action planner of the same organization, are also included.
Brinken said that both had planned to attack the Al-Shabaab, which Washington regarded as a terrorist movement in 2008.
“I announce the designation of five terrorist leaders in Africa as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT),” Brinken said in the statement.
The State Department’s list will freeze any assets that individuals may have in the United States and criminalize helping them.
Brinken added that the United States is “committed to disrupting the financing methods of ISIS-Mozambique, JNIM, and Al-Shabaab…limiting their ability to carry out further attacks on civilians”.
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