The U.S. State Department’s Rewards for Justice Program announced today that is offering a $10 million bounty for information leading to the capture and prosecution of Maalim Ayman, a Shabaab military commander behind the deadly 2020 raid on a Kenya base used by the U.S. military for counterterrorism operations in East Africa.

Maalim Ayman now joins three other Shabaab leaders with a $10 million bounty on their heads. The United States has placed bounties on other Shabaab leaders over the last several years, though all with lesser rewards. Shabaab, al-Qaeda’s branch in East Africa, is itself a U.S. designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. …

According to the U.S. government, Maalim Ayman prepared “the January 2020 attack on Camp Simba in Manda Bay, Kenya, that killed one U.S. military service member and two American contractors.” Though the impact of the raid was initially downplayed, the U.S. has since acknowledged the significance of the attack.