{Kenyan police on Thursday announced that it would offer a reward of 5 million shillings (around $48,000) for anyone with information that would lead to the arrest of two top Kenyan leaders of Al-Shabaab militant group.}<\/p>\n
Police spokesman Masoud Mwinyi said that Mohamed Mohamud, aka Dulyadin, and Ahmed Iman, aka Abu Zinira al-Kenyi, have been identified as the top Kenyan Al-Shabaab members.<\/p>\n
“Anybody who spots them or has information about them should let the authorities know. They are armed and dangerous people and have been behind a series of attacks in Kenya,” Mwinyi told The Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n
Mohamud is said to be the top commander of Al-Shabaab in the Gedo region of Somalia. He hails from the northeastern Kenyan town of Garissa.<\/p>\n
Iman, meanwhile, is an engineering graduate from the Majengo slums in Nairobi, a major recruiting point for the Somali militant group, according to a UN report<\/p>\n
It is estimated that up to 500 Kenyan youths fight alongside the Al-Qaeda-linked group.<\/p>\n
Kenya has been hit by a spate of recent attacks that the authorities blame on Somalia’s militant Al-Shabaab group, which demands that Nairobi withdraw its troops \u2013 first dispatched in 2011 \u2013 from Somalia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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