US offers up to US$10 million reward for information on al-Shabaab’s emerging trade-based and other financing operations
The US state department is offering a reward of up to US$10 million for information leading to the disruption of the financial mechanisms of al-Shabaab, the Islamic fundamentalist jihadist group based in Somalia and active elsewhere in East Africa.
The group, which Washington considers to be a terrorist organisation, has lately become involved in new ways of financing it’s activities, including trade-based operations according to a departmental statement.
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