The State Department on Friday announced additional five terrorist leaders in Africa who are designated as specially designated global terrorists (SDGTs) under executive order 13224, as amended.
They include: Bonomade Machude Omar, Sidan ag Hitta, Salem ould Breihmatt, Ali Mohamed Rage, and Abdikadir Mohamed Abdikadir are designated as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) under Executive Order 13224, as amended.
Bonomade Machude Omar, the senior military commander of Islamic State’s affiliate in Mozambique, led a group of extremists, who killed dozens of people in an attack on the Amarula Hotel in the town of Palma in March, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement.
He is also responsible for attacks elsewhere in Mozambique and in Tanzania, Blinken said.
Sidang Hitta and Salem Ould al-Hasan, senior leaders of Mali-based al Qaeda-linked Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, also were designated, as were Ali Mohamed Rage and Abdikadir Mohamed Abdikadir, leaders of the al Shabaab group of Somalia, Blinken said.
Blinken said that all property and interests in property of these individuals must be blocked and reported to the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). In addition, persons that engage in certain transactions with the persons designated today may themselves be exposed to designation. Furthermore, any foreign financial institution that knowingly facilitates a significant financial transaction or provides significant financial services for the persons designated today could be subject to U.S. correspondent account or payable-through account sanctions.
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