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Photo credit: File The abduction comes barely two days after Adam Ibrahim, alias Dhagajun, Al-Shabaab's national finance chief, was killed in an airstrike in Jilib on Sunday evening.
Photo credit: File | Nation Media Group In North-Eastern Kenya, Al-Shabaab's financial networks have long exploited the porous Kenya-Somalia border, hawala money transfer systems, and charcoal and sugar smuggling routes running through Lamu and Garissa.
Somalia's National Intelligence and Security Agency confirmed Wadaad's death four days later, describing him as the group's chief finance officer, who oversaw extortion and illegal tax collection across Lower Shabelle and Banadir.
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