Officials in Somalia’s Pantland region banned the illegal entry of foreigners this week and ordered telecom companies to neutralize the SIM cards associated with unspecified people and Islamic State militants.
This step is an attempt to disrupt the Islamic State Financial Network as aggressive continues against the hidden fighter in the military sector.
Officials recently launched military operations against fighters of Alimiskad and Al-Mud Mountains in Bari region of Pantland. Security forces confiscated camps and defensive positions and extended the fighters further in the mountains.
Security agencies have started a rift on unspecified people in Pantland. According to local reports, the authorities made more than 300 arrests in the operation.
The Ministry of Interior, Megil, has issued a directive to unspecified the sale of SIM cards and prohibiting them from opening financial accounts without proper identity.
Abdirrahman Yusuf Farah, a former Puntland intelligence head, said that security agencies would violate the rights of the people in search of IS members and supporters and legally anyone entering Pantland would be honored.
In a report released in December, the International Crisis Group said that the Somalia branch of the Islamic State said that in Africa, he became influential in spreading funds to finance terrorism elsewhere.
The group withdraws citizens and businesses to finance their operations and send money to others who are partners.
Omar Mahmood, a senior raceer of the International Crisis Group, said that the IS danger is increasing.
“It is essential about the Islamic State in Pantland or Somalia, but the group serves as a connective node for Islamic State allies, in East Africa, in East Africa, in East Africa,” Mahmud said. The Islamic State serves as a connection for other colleagues outside the continent and other colleagues.
Mahmood said that Pantland is trying to block the local IS’s access to international banking systems.
“The group has focused on developing its financial capabilities, whether it is a deletion in Bosaso and then moving it externally,” Hey has actually developed that particular niche, compared to operating capacity Very much more is trying to tighten the use of their formal system, which is the banking sector or telecom, to continue the group, one, financial generates, and two, then to send that money outside Pantland For. ,
Pantland is relatively peaceful compared to Southern Somalia, but local authorities have been worried about the growing strength of the Islamic State, which have been fuel by foreign fighters. Officials are demanding international financial and military aid including air aid.
