This archive report was first published on 28 September 2019.
On September 28, 2019, the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) released a list of sanctioned individuals, including seven Kenyan nationals, following President Trump's administration imposing sanctions on individuals over allegations of supporting terrorist groups.
The list includes Garissa-based Sheikh Hassaan Hussein Adam (Hussein), Sheikh Hassaan (Omar), Mr. Hassan Mahad (Omar), and Mr. Hassan Mahat, as well as Egyptian-born Kenyans Al Masri, Abd Al Wakil (Ali), and Moustafa Ali Elbishy.
The US will seize assets of persons in the sanction list and bar American nationals from transacting any business in them.
These sanctions come after the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Kenya-based Halima Adan Ali in April 2019, over claims of being part of a network that wired over $150,000 through the Hawala system to Isis fighters in Syria, Libya, and Central Africa.
Additionally, the US also imposed sanctions against another Kenyan, Mr. Waleed Ahmed Zein, last year, who is accused of running a global financial network in support of Isis.
