{"id":29632,"date":"2020-09-03T09:36:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T09:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=29632"},"modified":"2020-09-03T09:36:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T09:36:54","slug":"kenyan-govt-freezes-accounts-of-suspected-al-shabab-financiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=29632","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan govt freezes accounts of suspected al-Shabab financiers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The assets belonging to no fewer than nine suspects accused of funding Somalia militant group, al-Shabab have been frozen with immediate effect by authorities in Kenya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The move was confirmed on Wednesday by Kenya\u2019s interior ministry which said that the decision was part of its renewed counter-terrorism efforts aimed at tackling \u201cdomestic terrorists\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement, Internal Security Minister Fred Matiang\u2019i said that the freezing of assets of the nine Kenyans would ensure they no longer financed\u00a0al-Shabab<\/a>\u00a0group \u201cwithin our borders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also warned that the group was recruiting, radicalising and planting operatives among civilians \u201cto advance their agenda of extremism and terrorism\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The announcement came as Kenya\u2019s President Uhuru Kenyatta<\/a> told global leaders that the Covid-19 pandemic had heightened potential for terrorist acts, worsened the refugee crisis and led to the proliferation of small arms and light weapons in the Horn of Africa region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kenya has faced numerous attacks from al-Shabab since deploying its troops to Somalia in 2011 to combat the group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The assets belonging to no fewer than nine suspects accused of funding Somalia militant group, al-Shabab have been frozen with immediate effect by authorities in Kenya. The move was confirmed on Wednesday by Kenya\u2019s interior ministry which said that the decision was part of its renewed counter-terrorism efforts aimed at tackling \u201cdomestic terrorists\u201d. In a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nKenyan govt freezes accounts of suspected al-Shabab financiers » WatchDog Plus Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=29632\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Odofin\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=29632#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"World News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=11\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Kenyan govt freezes accounts of suspected al-Shabab financiers\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Kenyan govt freezes accounts of suspected al-Shabab financiers » WatchDog Plus Media","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=29632","author":"Odofin","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?p=29632#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"World News","item":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=11"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Kenyan govt freezes accounts of suspected al-Shabab financiers"}]}]}},"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Odofin","author_link":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?author=2"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/?cat=11\" rel=\"category\">World News<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"The assets belonging to no fewer than nine suspects accused of funding Somalia militant group, al-Shabab have been frozen with immediate effect by authorities in Kenya. The move was confirmed on Wednesday by Kenya\u2019s interior ministry which said that the decision was part of its renewed counter-terrorism efforts aimed at tackling \u201cdomestic terrorists\u201d. In a…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29632"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchdogplusmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}