US offers 4.7 million euros for information leading to the capture of Al Shabaab spokesman

Somalia announces the death of ten suspected members of the terrorist group in an operation in Hiiraan

March 1 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The United States has announced a reward of five million dollars (around 4.7 million euros) for information leading to the capture of the spokesman for the terrorist group Al Shabaab, Ali Mohamed Rage, alias ‘Ali Dhiri’.

The State Department’s Rewards for Justice program has indicated in a message that it “offers up to five million dollars for information on Ali Mohamed Rage”, which it describes as “a key leader and main spokesperson for Al Shabaab, declared a terrorist organization foreign by the United States”.

“Rage has been involved in planning attacks in Kenya and Somalia by the group,” he said, before recalling that he became a spokesman for the terrorist group in May 2009. He was also included by Washington on its list of terrorists foreigners in August 2021.

Likewise, he has stressed through a message on his account on the social network Twitter that Al Shabaab, which maintains ties with the terrorist organization Al Qaeda, “has killed thousands of innocent people in East Africa.” “Help us find it. Do you have a clue? Contact us. You could receive a reward and be relocated,” he has settled.

For its part, the Somali government announced on Tuesday the death of ten suspected members of Al Shabaab, including three senior members of the group, in the framework of an operation carried out in the town of Buruein, in the Hiiraan region (central ), as reported by the Somali state news agency, SONNA.

Somalia has increased offensives against Al Shabaab in recent months with the support of clans and local militias as part of a series of decisions taken by the president, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, who promised upon taking office to put the fight against terrorism at the center of his efforts to stabilize the African country.