Rewards for Justice is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information on Mohamoud Abdi Aden and any other individual responsible for the 2019 attack by al-Shabaab terrorists on the DusitD2 Hotel complex in Nairobi, Kenya. On the afternoon of January 15, 2019, al-Shabaab gunmen armed with explosives, automatic weapons, and grenades attacked the DusitD2 commercial center, a 6-building complex of shops, offices, and a hotel. At least 21 people, including one U.S. citizen, were killed in the assault. Al-Shabaab — an affiliate of the al-Qa\u2019ida terrorist organization — released live updates throughout the attack via its official Shahada News Agency and issued a press release in which it stated that the attack was in response to guidance from then al-Qa’ida leader Ayman Zawahiri.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Aden, an al-Shabaab leader, helped plan the January 2019 attack. On October 17, 2022, the Department of State designated him as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) under Executive Order (E.O.) 13224, as amended.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Al-Shabaab is responsible for numerous terrorist attacks in Kenya, Somalia, and neighboring countries that have killed thousands of people, including U.S. citizens. The Department of State designated al-Shabaab as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) in March 2008. In April 2010, al-Shabaab was also designated by the UN Security Council\u2019s Somalia Sanctions Committee pursuant to paragraph 8 of resolution 1844 (2008).<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"featured_media":211502,"menu_order":0,"template":"","hostages-kidnapping":[],"gender":[],"crime-category":[3432],"location-country":[4681],"region":[3014],"election-interference":[],"organization":[2997],"dprk":[],"cyber":[],"featured-terrorist":[3372],"class_list":["post-171198","rewards","type-rewards","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","crime-category-3432","location-country-kenya-bur","region-3014","organization--al-shabaab","featured-terrorist-show-terrorist-as-featured-on-homepage-bur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/38ec3b35-6f9f-491a-bc0d-08b6c6f4d58c.rfj.tips\/bur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rewards\/171198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/38ec3b35-6f9f-491a-bc0d-08b6c6f4d58c.rfj.tips\/bur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rewards"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/38ec3b35-6f9f-491a-bc0d-08b6c6f4d58c.rfj.tips\/bur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rewards"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/38ec3b35-6f9f-491a-bc0d-08b6c6f4d58c.rfj.tips\/bur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/38ec3b35-6f9f-491a-bc0d-08b6c6f4d58c.rfj.tips\/bur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"hostages-kidnapping","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/38ec3b35-6f9f-491a-bc0d-08b6c6f4d58c.rfj.tips\/bur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hostages-kidnapping?post=171198"},{"taxonomy":"gender","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/38ec3b35-6f9f-491a-bc0d-08b6c6f4d58c.rfj.tips\/bur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gender?post=171198"},{"taxonomy":"crime-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/38ec3b35-6f9f-491a-bc0d-08b6c6f4d58c.rfj.tips\/bur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/crime-category?post=171198"},{"taxonomy":"location-country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/38ec3b35-6f9f-491a-bc0d-08b6c6f4d58c.rfj.tips\/bur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location-country?post=171198"},{"taxonomy":"region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/38ec3b35-6f9f-491a-bc0d-08b6c6f4d58c.rfj.tips\/bur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/region?post=171198"},{"taxonomy":"election-interference","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/38ec3b35-6f9f-491a-bc0d-08b6c6f4d58c.rfj.tips\/bur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/election-interference?post=171198"},{"taxonomy":"organization","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/38ec3b35-6f9f-491a-bc0d-08b6c6f4d58c.rfj.tips\/bur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organization?post=171198"},{"taxonomy":"dprk","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/38ec3b35-6f9f-491a-bc0d-08b6c6f4d58c.rfj.tips\/bur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dprk?post=171198"},{"taxonomy":"cyber","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/38ec3b35-6f9f-491a-bc0d-08b6c6f4d58c.rfj.tips\/bur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cyber?post=171198"},{"taxonomy":"featured-terrorist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/38ec3b35-6f9f-491a-bc0d-08b6c6f4d58c.rfj.tips\/bur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured-terrorist?post=171198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}