Career
He was listed by the United States State Department as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist in April 2015. After joining al-Shabaab he held a number of positions within the group, including acting as its deputy governor of the Lower Juba region in 2008 and its governor of the Bay and Bakool regions in 2009. By 2013 he had become a senior adviser to al-Shabaab leader Ahmed Abdi Godane, and served in the group’s Interior Department, which oversaw its domestic activity.
He was named First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Shabaab leader in September 2014, after Godane was killed by a United States airstrike.
