EU
Active- Programme
- SOM
- Designated
- Not published by this authority
- Stated grounds
- Location: Somalia
- Source
- EU Consolidated Sanctions List
- Last confirmed
- 19 Oct 2026
Sheikh Aweys
PersonBorn 1935Last read from source 19 Oct 2026
Hassan Dahir Aweys has acted and continues to act as a senior political and ideological leader of a variety of armed opposition groups responsible for repeated violations of the general and complete arms embargo and/or acts that threaten the Djibouti peace agreement, the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) forces. Between June 2006 and September 2007, AWEYSs served as chairman of the central committee of the Islamic Courts Union; in July 2008 he declared himself chairman of the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia-Asmara wing; and in May 2009 he was named chairman of Hisbul Islam, an alliance of groups opposed to the TFG. In each of these positions, AWEYS's statements and actions have demonstrated an unequivocal and sustained intention to dismantle the TFG and expel AMISOM by force from Somalia.
Sanctioned · EU
Listed by 1 authoritySO
1
Sanctions
Own listings
0
Companies
Roles recorded
0
Designated
Of those companies
1
Countries
Connections
0
Identifiers
Documents
1
Sources
13 names on file
Listed in their own right1
Named directly by EU.
Director of a company that is listed—
No company role is recorded for this person by any register read.
Sanctions1 active
- EUActive
SOM
Designation date not published by this authority · EU Consolidated Sanctions List
Companies & roles
No company role is recorded for this person. Roles come from national business registers, and a sanctioned individual will usually have none here — the registers this system reads cover a different set of countries from the sanctions lists.
On the record
- Name
- Sheikh Aweys
- Also known as
- Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys · Ahmed Dahir Aweys · Aweys Hassan Dahir · Mohammed Hassan Ibrahim
- Date of birth
- 1935
- Place of birth
- UNKNOWN
- Nationality
- SO
- Position
- Hassan Dahir Aweys has acted and continues to act as a senior political and ideological leader of a variety of armed opposition groups responsible for repeated violations of the general and complete arms embargo and/or acts that threaten the Djibouti peace agreement, the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) forces. Between June 2006 and September 2007, AWEYSs served as chairman of the central committee of the Islamic Courts Union; in July 2008 he declared himself chairman of the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia-Asmara wing; and in May 2009 he was named chairman of Hisbul Islam, an alliance of groups opposed to the TFG. In each of these positions, AWEYS's statements and actions have demonstrated an unequivocal and sustained intention to dismantle the TFG and expel AMISOM by force from Somalia.
- First recorded here
- 28 Aug 2026
Exposure
Medium risk1 of 5 components assessed — no composite shown, because how much was read is itself unknown here
Sanctions and debarments60
Sanctioned by 1 authority: EU. Confirmed present in a source snapshot within the last 90 days.
Not scored
Company associations
Not scored. No company role is recorded for this person, which is an absence of records rather than a finding.
Jurisdiction
Not scored. The jurisdiction lists this system reads are: EU list of high-risk third countries (AMLD Art. 9). Each names specific countries, so absence from them is not a clearance of Somalia. Separately, 8 of the sanctions authorities this system reads have designated companies registered in Somalia — a count of this corpus, not a rating of the jurisdiction.
Evidence coverage
Not scored. The evidence ledger records which sources were read for a COMPANY; it holds no per-person rows, so there is no coverage figure to price in here. The sources behind this record are listed under Evidence.
Adverse media
Not scored. Media coverage is not linked to individuals in this system at all, only to companies, and even there it covers a small fraction of the records.
Band drawn from the components that could be measured, methodology v5. The unscored ones above are gaps in what was read, not findings of nothing. Not a compliance determination — check the underlying listings before acting on anything here.
Active listings1
Companies & roles0
No company role is recorded for this person.
Identifiers0
No identity document is recorded. Business registers publish names and roles, not passport or national-ID numbers — those come only from sanctions lists.
Names on file13
Sheikh AweysEU Consolidated Sanctions ListSheikh Hassan Dahir AweysEU Consolidated Sanctions ListAhmed Dahir AweysEU Consolidated Sanctions ListAweys Hassan DahirEU Consolidated Sanctions ListMohammed Hassan IbrahimEU Consolidated Sanctions ListHassan Tahir OaisEU Consolidated Sanctions ListHassan Tahir UwaysEU Consolidated Sanctions ListSheikh HassanEU Consolidated Sanctions ListHassan Dahir AweysEU Consolidated Sanctions ListSheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys AliEU Consolidated Sanctions ListHassan Dahir AwesEU Consolidated Sanctions ListShaykh Hassan Dahir AwesEU Consolidated Sanctions ListHassen Dahir AweyesEU Consolidated Sanctions List
Transliterations and name orders differ between authorities. They are kept as published rather than normalised into one spelling, because the spelling is part of what each source actually said.
Where this record comes from
Records are matched into one person only on a shared identity document, or by a human reviewer — never on name similarity alone. How this works. Not legal or compliance advice: check the originals before acting on anything here.
Recent activity
- 19 Oct 2026Last read from source