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Somalia

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32023R1147

Abdullahi Osman Mohamed Caddow, also known as “Eng. Ismail” is an al-Shabaab senior explosive expert responsible for the overall management of the group’s explosives operations and manufacturing. In doing so, he has engaged in acts which threaten the peace, security, and stability of Somalia. He has joined the media wing of Al-Shabaab, Al-Kataib in 2008 in Mogadishu and later in 2014 became a member of the explosives manufacturing unit in the group operating in many explosive preparation centers in the towns of Jilib, Bu’aale, Saakoow, Salagle, kuunyo-Barrow, and Arabow. He commands a team of 68 Al-Shabaab operatives and smuggles approximately six million USD of explosives manufacturing material yearly.’

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2023-06-12

EU

Restrictive measures against Somalia

UN

Somalia

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

- 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.

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 measures include a ban on the direct or indirect import of charcoal from Somalia and a prohibition of the direct or indirect sale, supply or transfer to Somalia of listed items if there is sufficient evidence to demonstrate that the item(s) will be used, or a significant risk they may be used, in the manufacture in Somalia of improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The measures also cover targeted individual sanctions on designated persons and entities (asset freeze and prohibition from making funds and economic resources available as well as travel restrictions). Derogations to the restrictive measures are possible as well as exemptions for humanitarian purposes.