Department of State Diplomatic Security Service Rewards for Justice said Thursday. The groupвЂ™s activities continue to threaten the peace, security, and stability of the region,вЂќ the U.S. вЂњAl-Shabaab, a Somalia-based terrorist group, has claimed responsibility for many bombings in Kenya and Somalia. The State department said in a statement that the jihadist group which continues to wreak havoc in a number of countries, is a major threat to regional peace.

In Somalia, one of the major attacks occurred on December 2019 which left at least 8o people dead following a suicide car bomb at a checkpoint in Mogadishu. Other major attacks carried out by the Shabaab include the Westgate Shopping Mall on Septemthat left 71 people dead among them four terrorists and Garissa University on Apwhen 147 people, many of them students were killed, among others.

Kenya last suffered a major terror attack on Januat the Dusit D2 Hotel complex in Nairobi where more than 20 people were killed among them sixteen Kenyans, one American, a South African, a Briton, and 3 others who were not immediately identified. The US further offered a 3-million-dollar reward for the groupвЂ™s facilitator and operational planner, only identified as Jafar. The State Department issued a 6-million-dollar reward for Abu Ubaidah Direye who is categorized as the organizationвЂ™s leader, followed by a 5-million-dollar reward for both Mahad karate, the Amniyat Commander and Fuad Mohamed Khalaf, the financial facilitator of the group.ДЄmniyat is a highly secretive Al-ShabaabвЂ™s intelligence and counter-intelligence wing tasked with gathering information on potential targets and in some instances carry out assassinations and bombings. The reward notice was issued under the State Department Rewards for Justice Program in a bid to disrupt and weaken the leadership chain of the Al-Qaeda linked terrorist group which has staged major attacks in East African countries including Kenya.

Nairobi, Kenya, Nov 6- The United States government has issued a bounty of up to 6 million dollars for information on the whereabouts of four key leaders of the Somalia-based terrorist group, Al-Shabaab.

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