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Africa-Press – Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>The United States announced Thursday it was offering a reward of up to $10 million for a man described as the “terror mastermind” of a bloody hotel attack in Kenya four years ago.<\/b><\/p>\n

It said it is seeking information on Mohamoud Abdi Aden, describing him as a leader of the Somalia-based Al-Shabaab jihadist group that has carried out several deadly attacks in neighboring Kenya.<\/p>\n

The Al-Qaeda affiliated group claimed responsibility for the January 15, 2019 siege on the upmarket DusitD2 hotel compound in the Kenyan capital Nairobi that lasted almost 20 hours.<\/p>\n

At least 21 people lost their lives, including a US citizen, and many more were injured. Kenya said at the time that all the assailants had been eliminated.<\/p>\n

“Mohamoud Abdi Aden, an Al-Shabaab leader, was part of the cell that planned the DusitD2 hotel attack,”<\/b> the US ambassador to Kenya, Meg Whitman, told reporters in Nairobi.<\/p>\n

She said the US was offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the arrest of Aden,<\/b> described by the embassy as a Kenyan national, and others accused of involvement in the hotel siege.<\/p>\n

The head of Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations, Amin Mohamed Ibrahim, described Aden as the “terror mastermind”<\/b> behind the carnage.<\/p>\n

The State Department designated Aden a “specially designated global terrorist” in October last year.<\/p>\n

Al-Shabaab has repeatedly targeted Kenya since it sent its army into Somalia in October 2011 to fight the Islamist militant group.<\/p>\n

In 2013, Al-Shabaab laid siege to the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi for four days, leaving 67 people dead.<\/p>\n

In 2015, an attack on Garissa University in eastern Kenya killed 148 people, almost all of the students. Many were shot at point-blank range after being identified as Christians.<\/p>\n

It was the second bloodiest attack in Kenya’s history, surpassed only by Al-Qaeda’s bombing of the US embassy in Nairobi in 1998 which killed 213 people.<\/p>\n

Al-Shabaab, which has been waging a bloody insurgency against Somalia’s fragile central government for 15 years, has been designated a terrorist group by the US since 2008.<\/p>\n

In November, Washington said it was increasing its reward to up to $10 million apiece for key Al-Shabaab leaders including “emir” Ahmed Diriye<\/p>\n

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