This is CBS Eye in the World. I'm John Bachelors. The G-HOD in Africa. I go to a report

from Caleb Weiss for the Long-Word Journal. Caleb is Ridgeway Foundation senior analyst

as well as a co-editor of Long-Word Journal along with the Raju of the Foundation for

the Defense of Democracy. U.S. designates Islamic State financier

in Somalia. United States government sanctioned the financial amir for the Islamic State's

Somali province. In this capacity, he was responsible for overseeing the collection and

allocation of millions of dollars through ISS coffers. Caleb, good evening to you, and I

say generally, what? Islamic State in Somalia? This has been a Shabab story for years. Is

it working with Shabab? Is it at War with Shabab? Where in Somalia? Good evening to you.

Awesome. Good evening. Thank you for having me, by the way. Yes, so these long-sleeved Somalia

is definitely much smaller than its counterpart in Shabab, which is of course Al-Qaeda's branch

in Somalia. It's mainly based in the northern semi-atonomous region of Portland, but it does

have cells in Mogadishu, and it does sporadic attacks, but it's actually more useful for

the Islamic State as a financial and administration hub for the Islamic State across much of East

Africa. For instance, the Islamic State in Somalia hosts what's called the Al-Qarrah office.

The Al-Qarrah is just one of the so-called regional offices that the Islamic State has

around the world, and its job is to basically be the middle managers for the Islamic State's

central leadership in Iraq and Syria. So the guys in Al-Qarrah and in Somalia's northern

Portland region, they effectively oversee and manage the Islamic State's networks reaching

from Uganda to DRC to Mozambique all the way down to South Africa, and they're coordinating

not only just operations or otherwise other activities, but also the collection of revenue,

which is essentially what this guy, Abdullah Yusuf, helped oversee inside Somalia. Now, it's

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