Last Updated: January 19, 2026
Hassan Dahir Aweys
Aliases
Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys Ali; Hassan Dahir Awes; Shaykh Hassan Dahir Awes; Hassen Dahir Aweyes; Ahmed Dahir Aweys; Sheikh Aweys; Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys; Aweys Hassan Dahir; Mohammed Hassan Ibrahim; Hassan Tahir Oais; Hassan Tahir Uways; Sheikh Hassan
Position
Hassan Dahir Aweys has acted and continues to act as a senior political and ideological leader of a variety of armed opposition groups responsible for repeated violations of the general and complete arms embargo and/or acts that threaten the Djibouti peace agreement, the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the African Union Mission in Somalia...
DoB
N/A
Linked to
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32017R0395&from=EN
Official reason
Hassan Dahir Aweys has acted and continues to act as a senior political and ideological leader of a variety of armed opposition groups responsible for repeated violations of the general and complete arms embargo and/or acts that threaten the Djibouti peace agreement, the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the African Union Mission in Somalia...
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