Last Updated: January 19, 2026
Ahmed Abdi aw-Mohamed
Aliases
Muktar Abdirahman Abu Zubeyr; Muktar Abdulrahim Abuzubair; Ahmed Abdi Aw Mohammed; Ahmed Abdi Aw-Mohamud; Godane; Godani; Shaykh Mukhtar; Abu Zubeyr
DoB
1977-07-10
Linked to
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32017R0395&from=EN
Official reason
Ahmed Abdi Aw-Mohamed is a senior leader of al-Shabaab and was publically named emir of the organisation in December 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 ...
Other Information
(Date of UN designation: 2010-04-12)
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