SECO amends ISIL sanctions entry for Ugandan individual

BERN, July 10, 2026 — Switzerland’s State Secretariat for Economic Affairs published a one-entry amendment to its sanctions regime targeting ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida, revising the listing for Hamidah Nabagala, also identified as Hamida Nabaggala, under foreign identifier QDi.439. The amendment was published July 10 and entered into force on July 8.

The delta notice shows the listing remains in place and was amended rather than newly imposed or removed. The entry identifies the individual as a Ugandan national, gives Congo DR as the address, and says she worked as a mediator in financing channels for ISIL in Central Africa. It also says she was charged with financing a 2021 bombing in Kampala and with attempting to coerce her three children in Uganda to send them to ISIL camps in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The notice indicates that specific biographical and identity fields were updated. In the marked-up entry, one date of birth is deleted and replaced with another, one spelling of the name is struck through and another retained, and the passport reference is deleted while a national identification number is added, with the note that the person was originally listed on March 30, 2026, and amended on July 8, 2026.

The Swiss ISIL-Al-Qaida regime implements UN Security Council measures and includes financial sanctions and travel restrictions. SECO says changes to the underlying UN sanctions lists are directly applicable in Switzerland.