Issa Jemes Mwesiga, who hailed from Tanzania was executed on April 2, 2016 at a square in Jilib town, about 400 km south of the capital Mogadishu. He was accused and sentenced to death by an Al-Shabaab court for spying.
Al-Shabaab officials said that Mwesiga was fighting alongside fellow jihadists before becoming a spy.
“Issa Jemes Mwesiga joined Al-Shabaab in 2013. Unfortunately, he has now been found guilty of spying,” said an Al-Shabaab official who spoke at the square as the Tanzanian jihadist faced a firing squad.
It is not yet clear which group or country the foreign militant was spying for.
Residents in the area, who anonymously contacted Somali National News Agency for security reasons believe that Al-Shabaab militants in the Juba territory have been affected by split loyalties to Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or IS.
“The foreign jihadist (Mwesiga) was executed by militants led by Ahmed Surad (one of the Al-Shabaab leaders in the area)” stated a resident as quoted by SONNA on Saturday.
Al-Shabaab is reckoned to have a large number of foreign jihadists widely known as al-Mujahedeen al-Muhajereen (migrant jihadists).
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