Division 4 Ahmed Abdi aw-Mohamed (a.k.a. a) Abu Zubeyr, Muktar Abdirahman, b) Abuzubair, Muktar Abdulrahim, c) Aw Mohammed, Ahmed Abdi, d) Aw-Mohamud, Ahmed Abdi, e) ‘ Godane ’ , f) ‘ Godani ’ , g) ‘ Mukhtar, Shaykh ’ , h) ‘ Zubeyr, Abu ’ )F1F2

Date of birth: 10 July 1977 . Place of birth: Hargeysa, Somalia. Nationality: Somalia.

Date of UN designation: 12 April 2010 .

Other information: INTERPOL-UN Security Council Special Notice web link: https://www.interpol.int/en/notice/search/un/5774684

Ahmed Abdi Aw-Mohamed is a senior leader of al-Shabaab and was publically named emir of the organisation in December 2007. He exercises command responsibility for al-Shabaab operations across Somalia. Aw-Mohamed has denounced the Djibouti peace process as a foreign conspiracy, and in a May 2009 audio recording to Somali media, he acknowledged that his forces were engaged in recent fighting in Mogadishu.