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Abubakar Shekau

A rival jihadist group confirmed the death of Abubakar Shekau, leader of Boko Haram

June 7, 2021 Steven Addamah 0

More than two weeks after fierce fighting between rival jihadist factions in northeastern Nigeria, the Islamic State in West Africa (Iswap) group announced the death […]

Nigeria: Release of high school students kidnapped in Kankara

December 18, 2020 Steven Addamah 0

High school students captured last weekend at their boarding school in Kankara, north-western Nigeria, were released on the evening of Thursday 17 December. This mass […]

Nigeria: Boko Haram claims abduction of 330 high school students in Kankara

December 16, 2020 Steven Addamah 0

During the night of Friday to Saturday, several hundred high school students were kidnapped from their boarding school in Kankara by a hundred armed men […]

Boko Haram leader flees in hijab

February 14, 2018 Steven Addamah 0

The controversial leader of the terrorist Boko Haram group, Abubakar Shekau, has reportedly succeeded to escape as the Nigerian army on Tuesday cleared out a […]

Abubakar Shekau: Boko Haram ready for ‘war’ with Donald Trump

November 14, 2016 Steven Addamah 0

Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram on Sunday night, reacted to the election of Donald Trump. In an audio message […]

Boko Haram’s Shekau Appears in New Video, Vows to Continue Jihad

August 9, 2016 Geraldine Boechat 0

Boko Haram’s disputed leader Abubakar Shekau reiterated, in a new video, that he would make his fight against Nigeria and the entire world a “personal […]

Boko Haram’s Shekau Says he ‘is still alive, still in charge’

August 5, 2016 Khalid Al Mouahidi 0

Leader of the Nigeria-based Islamist militant group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, denied in an audio message that he has been replaced. In a 10-minute audio […]

Boko Haram Second in Command Arrested

April 4, 2016 Khalid Al Mouahidi 0

The leader of Nigerian Islamist group Ansaru, described as the second in command to Abubakar Shekau in the hierarchy of the Boko Haram terrorist group, […]

Boko Haram’s leader Abubakar Shekau claims he is still alive

August 17, 2015 Geraldine Boechat 0

Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Nigerian Islamist militant organization Boko Haram, has refuted media reports that he had been killed or deposed as the […]

Nigeria: Military says it is winning as Boko Haram joins IS

March 9, 2015 Geraldine Boechat 0

Boko Haram’s allegiance to the Islamic State has been seen as a sign of weakness after international forces took over some of the territories it […]

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