Last Updated: October 18, 2026

Ahmed Abdi aw-Mohamed

Aliases

Abu Zubeyr Muktar Abdirahman

Abuzubair Muktar Abdulrahim

Aw Mohammed Ahmed Abdi

Aw-Mohamud Ahmed Abdi

"Godane"

"Godani"

"Mukhtar Shaykh"

"Zubeyr Abu"

Nationality

Somalia

Date of birth

1977-07-10

Place of birth

Hargeysa, Somalia

Other sanctions regimes

Official reason

Ahmed Abdi Aw-Mohamed is a senior leader of Al-Shabaab and was publicly named emir of the organization in Dec 2007. He exercises command responsibility for Al-Shabaab operations across Somalia. Aw-Mohamed has denounced the Djibouti peace process as a foreign conspiracy, and in a May 2009 audio recording to Somali media, he acknowledged that his forces were engaged in recent fighting in Mogadishu.

Sender

Additional info

article 1 paragraph 3 (Arms embargo), article 2 paragraph 1 (Financial sanctions) and article 4 paragraph 1 (Travel ban)

Program information

Authority

Program

Ordinance of 13 May 2009 on measures against Somalia (SR 946.231.169.4)

Regime

UN, Switzerland country specific

Target State

Somalia

Measures

Asset freeze, Travel ban, Arms embargo

Official Information

Switzerland imposes these sanctions under the Ordinance of 13 May 2009 on measures against Somalia (SR 946.231.169.4). The measures implement sanctions adopted by the UN Security Council.

Program URL

https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/2009/295/de

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