The United States has imposed sanctions on four South Africa-based alleged funders of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and ISIS-Mozambique in a move meant to dismantle financial support networks for terrorist groups across the continent.
US Department of Treasury spokesperson Ned Price said in a statement on Thursday that Washington had designated Farhad Hoomer, Siraaj Miller, Abdella Abadigga and Peter Mbaga for allegedly facilitating funding for ISIS branches and networks across Africa, including the Islamic State for West Africa Province that is perpetrating evil in northern Nigeria.
“ISIS members and associates in South Africa are playing a role in facilitating the transfer of funds from the top of the ISIS hierarchy to branches across Africa,” Price said.
He said the latest move was meant “to further disrupt and expose key ISIS and ISIS-M supporters who raise revenue for ISIS and exploit South Africa’s financial system to facilitate funding for ISIS branches and networks across Africa.”
“All property and interests in property of the individuals named above, and of any entities that are owned, directly or indirectly, 50 percent or more by them, individually, or with other blocked persons, that are in the United States or in the possession or control of US persons, must be blocked.”
ISIS-linked militants have been leading an insurgence in northern Mozambique where they have killed over 3,500 people since October 2017 and displaced close to a million others from their homes.
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