The Nigerian army has said the leader of the Boko Haram militant group, Abubakar Shekau, has been “fatally wounded” in a raid.
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Usman listed the killed Boko Haram leaders to include Abubakar Mubi, Malam Nuhu and Malam Hamman.
Almost half a million children around Lake Chad face “severe acute malnutrition” due to drought and a seven-year insurgency by Islamist militant group Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria, UNICEF said on Thursday.
Nigeria’s military claimed today to have seriously injured Boko Haram’s elusive leader Abubakar Shekau and killed other commanders in an air strike on the Islamist group’s forest stronghold. He further applauded the Armed Forces for successfully degrading the Boko Haram Terrorists in the North East and tackling other criminalities in Nigeria soliciting cordial military bilateral relations with the Nigerian Armed Forces. According to the Global Terrorism Index, the group has actually killed more people than IS, murdering more than 6,000 people just a year ago.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is seen on arrival at the Presidential villa Abuja, Nigeria, August 23, 2016.
At the start of 2015, Boko Haram occupied an area the size of Belgium but has since been pushed back over the last 18 months by military assaults by the four countries.
While praising Nigeria and its neighbors’ efforts against Boko Haram, he reiterated the need for authorities to foster public confidence in government, warning that perceived corruption comes with grave consequences.
“The best evidence we have suggests that if you can kill or capture the top leadership, you’re putting more stress on the organization”, Mr. Heras says. Dozens of the kidnapped girls escaped, but 218 remain missing. Chibok, in northeastern Nigeria, is where almost 300 schoolgirls were abducted from a school in April 2014.
The group made worldwide headlines two years ago when it kidnapped more than 200 girls from a school in Chibok.
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The mysterious Shekau’s fate has been the subject of speculation recently amid claims he had been replaced by Sheikh Abu Musab al-Barnawi, the group’s former spokesperson. He had pledged the group’s allegiance to the Islamic State group past year, giving IS its first franchise in sub-Saharan Africa.
