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Al-Shabaab

Aliases

Al-Shabab; Shabaab; The Youth; Mujahidin Al-Shabaab Movement; Mujahideen Youth Movement; Mujahidin Youth Movement; MYM; Harakat Shabab Al-Mujahidin; Hizbul Shabaab; Hisb'ul Shabaab; Al-Shabaab Al-Islamiya; Youth Wing; Al-Shabaab Al-Islaam; Al-Shabaab Al-Jihaad; The Unity Of Islamic Youth; Harakat Al-Shabaab Al-Mujaahidiin; Harakatul...

Linked to

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32017R0395&from=EN

Official reason

Al-Shabaab has engaged in acts that directly or indirectly threaten the peace, security, or stability of Somalia, including but not limited to: acts that threaten the Djibouti Agreement of August 18, 2008, or the political process; and, acts that threaten the Transitional Federal Institutions (TFIs), the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), o...

Other Information

(Date of UN designation: 2010-04-12)\n(Location: Somalia.)

Date of listing

2017-03-08

Program information

Authority

EU

Program

Restrictive measures against Somalia

Regime

UN

Target State

Somalia

Measures

Asset freeze and prohibition to make funds available, Restrictions on admission

Sanctions Portfolio

- All assets of the listed persons and entities should be frozen. It is also prohibited to make any funds or assets directly or indirectly available to them. - Member States shall enforce travel restrictions on persons listed in Annex I of Council Decision 2010/231/CFSP.

Official Information

Measures imposed at UN level since UN Security Council Resolution 733 (1992) of 23 January 1992 and subsequent Resolutions are transposed into EU sanctions law. The measures include an arms embargo, which is partial and allows under certain conditions arms supplies for the development of Somalia's security and police institutions. In addition the m...

Program URL

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A02010D0231-20230612