The US Department of Treasury on Thursday designated a key financier of the extremist group ISIS in Somalia in the latest measure on counterterrorism.
“Today, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (Ofac) imposed sanctions on Abdiweli Mohamed Yusuf, the head of the finance office of the Somalia-based affiliate of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), designating him as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT),” reads the statement.
