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Nigerian Air Force Kills Top Boko Haram Militants In Airstrikes

The chief of Nigerian Air Force, Air Marshal Sadiq Abubakar, recently said that they have killed about 300 Boko Haram fighters over the last week in a raid in Borno State.

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Boko Haram commander, Abubakar Shekau reportedly injured following air raid by Nigerian army.

Shekau was “fatally wounded in the shoulder” during Friday’s raids, said army spokesman Sani Usman in a statement, without giving further details. The extremist group pledged allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist group, outlawed in Russian Federation and many other countries, in March 2015.

News of the raid, which took place Saturday in a village about 12 miles from Chibok, comes almost a month after the Nigerian army claimed to have completely eliminated Boko Haram in its stronghold of northeastern Nigeria.

“Those Boko Haram terrorist commanders confirmed dead include Abubakar Mubi, Malam Nuhu and Malam Hamman, amongst others”.

An attack by suspected Boko Haram members have left about 11 people dead in Kuburvwa village of Borno State.

In the latest video of Shekau, reportedly released in August, he threatened to carry out attacks in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.

There was no immediate reaction from the group, which only communicates with the media by videos.

The jihadist group has claimed more than 20,000 deaths, displaced 2.6 million people from their homes, and kidnapped thousands of children since it started fighting in 2009 for an independent Islamist state in Nigeria.

Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, is facing accusations that he has “failed as a father” of the nation. The global militant organisation announced a new leader for what it described as its West African operations this month – an account that Abubakar Shekau appeared to contradict in a later video message.

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“Some of them have probably been married off to other Boko Haram militants in Cameroon and Chad, as reports have indicated in the past”, said Ewi. Many rescued captives, especially pregnant girls, are being shunned.

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