The United States announced to pay 10 million dollars (about 9.5 million euros) for the capture of an Al-Shebab leader, responsible for an attack in 2020 on a military base in Kenya, in which three Americans died.
The State Department has announced that it will grant a reward for any information leading to the arrest and conviction, in any country, of Maalim Ayman, head of the Jaysh Ayman unit of that Islamic fundamentalist movement.
“Ayman is responsible for planning the January 2020 attack,” the US State Department said in a statement.
Al-Shebab, a group linked to Al-Qaeda, has been fighting the Somali federal government supported by the international community since 2007 and since 2008 classified as a terrorist organization by the United States.
On January 5, 2020, an Al-Shebab commando carried out a daring attack on a US-Kenyan military base known as Camp Simba in Manda Bay, near the scenic and touristy island of Lamu in southeastern Kenya. not far from the Somalis. border.
The attack lasted several hours and three Americans were killed in the operation, as well as four attackers.
According to a study conducted last year by George Washington University, Al-Shebab created the Jaysh Ayman unit to infiltrate Kenya.
Increasingly autonomous, it includes foreigners, Somalis also of Kenyan nationality, and Kenyans of Somali origin or not.
Al-Shebab is the usual designation for ‘Harakat al-Shebab al-Mujahideen’ (Young Warriors Movement), and the organization is also known as Hizbul Shebab and Popular Resistance Movement in the Land of Two Migrations.
Source: TSF
