- Abu Musab Al-Barnawi has been added to global terrorism list by the treasury Department of the United State of America
- The United States says these are part of the design to defeat Islamic State (ISIS)
- It is aimed at denying ISIS ability to recruit foreign terrorist fighters, stifling its financial resources among others
The Treasury Department of the United State of America says it has added two individuals and seven organizations in Nigeria and other Africa nations and Asia connected to Islamic State to its sanctions list for global terrorism.
The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in a statement on its website said it had added leader of Boko Haram, Abu Musab Al-Barnawi of Nigeria and Mahad Moalim of Somalia, and seven groups from Bangladesh, Egypt, the Philippines, Somalia, Nigeria and Tunisia to its sanctions list, Reuters reports.
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“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 said, using a common abbreviation for Islamic State.
This effort “is destroying ISIS in its safe havens, denying its ability to recruit foreign terrorist fighters, stifling its financial resources, negating the false propaganda it disseminates over the internet and social media, and helping to stabilize liberated areas in Iraq and Syria so the displaced can return to their homes and begin to rebuild their lives” , the statement added.
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Meanwhile, NAIJ.com had reported that a total of 1,127 persons, including women and children held under the captivity of Boko Haram insurgents from different parts of the Lake Chad region have been rescued by troops of the Nigerian military.
NAIJ.com gathered that Onyema Nwachukwu, the spokesman of the counterinsurgency efforts in the northeast Nigeria, otherwise known as Operation Lafiya Dole, dosclosed this in a statement issued on Tuesday, February 27.
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Source: Naija.ng
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