1982-04-15

Mombasa, KEN; Somalia

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32018R0413&from=EN

Abdifatah Abubakar Abdi was listed on 8 March 2018 pursuant to resolution 1844 (2008). In 2015, Abdifatah Abubakar Abdi was put on the Kenyan government's wanted list of terrorists known or suspected to be members of Al-Shabaab. Kenyan police report that Abdi recruits members for Al-Shabaab who provide support to Al-Shabaab, an entity listed on the United Nations Security Council Somalia and Eritrea sanctions list, inside Somalia and engages in acts that threaten the peace, security, or stability of Somalia. Among these recruits were three women arrested by Kenyan police while attempting to cross into Somalia. Abdi is wanted in connection with the June 2014 attack in Mpeketoni, Kenya that claimed numerous lives, and was believed to be planning further attacks. While Abdi may be focused on operations outside of Somalia, he is known to reside in Somalia and recruit individuals for Al-Shabaab who intend to cross the border between Kenya and Somalia.

(UN ID: SOi.017)\n(Date of UN designation: 2018-03-08)\n(UNLI-08.03.2018)

2018-03-19

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.