Peter Kirechu

Peter Kirechu is the former director of the Conflict Finance and Irregular Threats Program at the Center for Advanced and Defense Studies (C4ADS). He is a specialist on illicit transnational networks and political conflict in the Middle East and Africa.

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Mohamed Ahmed “Qahiye”: Islamic State’s Exiled Chieftain in Somalia Finds Refuge in Mozambique

04.01.2021 Peter Kirechu

In late 2018, the Islamic State (IS) franchise in Puntland, Somalia, was convulsed by a violent power struggle that killed key allies and relatives of...

Publication Militant Leadership Monitor East Africa

Sayf Abdulrab Salem al-Hayashi: AQAP’s Financial Conduit to the Yemen-Somalia Weapons Trade

01.05.2021 Peter Kirechu

On September 17, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Crime released a public report detailing the use of hawala remittance exchanges in the illicit trade in...

Publication Militant Leadership Monitor East Africa