The US treasury department has
included Abu Musab Al-Barnawi, factional leader of Boko Haram, to its sanctions
list for global terrorism.
Al-Barnawi’s group is suspected
of being behind the abduction of female students from Dapchi, a town in Yobe
state
On Tuesday, the treasury’s office
of foreign assets control (OFAC) said two individuals and seven organisations
in Africa and Asia have been included in the list.
In August 2016, the Islamic State
announced Al-Barnawi as the new leader of Boko Haram.
OFAC said the seven groups also
added to the list are from Bangladesh, Egypt, the Philippines, Somalia, and
Tunisia.
It listed them as
ISIS-Bangladesh, ISIS-Egypt, ISIS-Philippines, ISIS-Somalia, ISIS-West Africa,
Jund al-Khilafah-Tunisia, also known as ISIS-Tunisia, and Islamic State of
Lanao, in the Philippines.
In a separate statement, the US
State Department said it has also designated 40 Islamic State leaders and
operatives dating back to 2011 under an order aimed at denying them access to
the US financial system.
“These designations are part of a
larger comprehensive plan to defeat ISIS that, in coordination with the
75-member Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, has made significant progress toward
that goal,” the statement read.
The department said the move is
aimed at “destroying ISIS in its safe havens, denying its ability to recruit
foreign terrorist fighters, and stifling its financial resources”.
It added that it would also help
in “negating the false propaganda it (ISIS) disseminates over the internet and
social media, and helping to stabilise liberated areas in Iraq and Syria so the
displaced can rebuild their lives”.
In 2017, Islamic State fighters
were driven from all their strongholds in both Syria and Iraq, but the group is
believed to still be capable of carrying out an insurgency and plotting attacks
elsewhere.
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