Interior Ministry releases list of banned ideological groups
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Layla Nour
- . February 27, 2023
- . Update: February 27, 2023 11:48 pm
Interior Ministry today released a list of parties, structures, and movements that Were believed to be a part of ‘banned ideological international groups’.
Banned Ideological International Groups
A list of parties, structures, and movements that Were believed to be a part of “banned ideological international groups” was made public by the Interior Ministry in an order. Among others, there are groups like the Islamic State, the global Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaida, Boko Haram, or movements connected to Shiite networks like the Houthi in Yemen. The structures connected to the Hezbollah movement that operates in the Gulf states are also present.
According to a directive signed on February 9 by the Minister of the Interior, Fakridine Mahamoud, 69 organisations operating globally as members of “banned ideological international groups” are now forbidden from entering Comoros.
Hezbollah Movement
The Islamic State group, the global Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaida, Boko Haram, movements connected to Shiite networks like the Houthi in Yemen, and all groups connected to the Hezbollah movement operating in Gulf states are just a few of the names on this list.
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Financing Criminal Operations
Moreover, It has been stated that “Comoros should make a strong signal in their will to combat banned ideologies in all of its manifestations, it’s financing, and take on all the structures which are engaged in financing criminal operations.”
Notably, the Interior Minister recently hosted and conducted a workshop in Moroni to generate ideas for the early implementation of the Money Laundering Law.
Targeted entities have settled in the Middle East and have established branches and powerful networks not only in Europe and Africa but also in some Asian nations and even in the Gulf of Aden region near the Indian Ocean.
This blacklist, the first made public by the Comorian authorities, includes the Aqmi group (Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb), the Al-Qaida organisation in the Arabian Peninsula (Aqpa), and Al-Shabaabi, suspected of supporting and supplying groups operating in the Mozambique Canal in Cabo Delgado.
