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ABUKAR ALI ADAN

PersonBorn 1972Last read from source 19 Oct 2026

Deputy leader of Al-Shabaab

Sanctioned · Switzerland SECO, Australia DFAT, UK OFSI, EU, UN Security Council
Listed by 5 authorities
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Sanctions
Own listings
0
Companies
Roles recorded
0
Designated
Of those companies
0
Countries
Connections
1
Identifiers
Documents
6
Sources
5 names on file
Listed in their own right5

Named directly by Australia DFAT, EU, Switzerland SECO, UK OFSI, UN Security Council.

Director of a company that is listed—

No company role is recorded for this person by any register read.

Sanctions5 active

  • Switzerland SECOActive

    Somalia

    Designation date not published by this authority · Switzerland SECO Sanctions List

  • Australia DFATActive

    2713 (Al-Shabaab)

    Designation date not published by this authority · Australia DFAT Consolidated List

  • UK OFSIActive

    Somalia

    Designation date not published by this authority · UK Sanctions List (FCDO)

  • EUActive

    SOM

    Designation date not published by this authority · EU Consolidated Sanctions List

  • UN Security CouncilActive

    Somalia

    Designation date not published by this authority · UN Security Council Consolidated 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
ABUKAR ALI ADAN
Also known as
Abukar Ali Aden · Ibrahim Afghan · Sheikh Abukar · Abukar Ali Adan
Date of birth
1972
Place of birth
UNKNOWN
Position
Deputy leader of Al-Shabaab
First recorded here
8 Aug 2026

Exposure

High risk1 of 5 components assessed — no composite shown, because how much was read is itself unknown here
Sanctions and debarments100

Sanctioned by 5 authorities: UN Security Council, EU, Australia DFAT, Switzerland SECO, UK OFSI. Includes a UN Security Council listing, which binds every member state. 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. No country is recorded for this record.

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.

Recent activity

  1. 19 Oct 2026Last read from source