On July 24, 2019, Al-Arabiya Network (Saudi Arabia) aired a brief report about Fahad Yasin, a former senior Al-Jazeera Network correspondent in Somalia who had headed Al-Jazeera's Center for Studies in East Africa in 2013. The report said that the Mogadishu-based Yasin, who was reportedly promoted to a key position in the Somali presidential palace in 2017, is known to have belonged to extremist organizations before working for Al-Jazeera, and the report claimed that his relationship with these groups had enabled him to form ties with Qatari security and intelligence agencies. The report claimed that Al-Arabiya's sources have alleged that Yasin has spearheaded Qatari schemes in Somalia and in the neighboring countries, and the report said that in August 2018, the Kenyan government revealed that Yasin had illicitly and fraudulently acquired a Kenyan passport. The narrator said that Qatar is interested in spreading its influence in the Horn of Africa because of the anarchy and the political void in the region.
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