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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