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07 Jun 2021

Nigeria's Boko Haram chief Abubakar Shekau dead, confirms ISWAP militant group

Boko Haram`s leader was reported to have been killed on several occasions over the last 12 years The group has killed more than 30,000 people, forced around 2 million people to flee their homes and spawned one of the world`s worst humanitarian crises

17 Jan 2017

Boko Haram claims Nigeria university twin suicide bombing

Islamist militant group Boko Haram has said it was behind Monday's twin suicide bombing at a university in north-eastern Nigeria which killed two people.

23 Aug 2016

Nigerian Air Force says kills top Boko Haram militants, leader believed wounded

Nigeria’s Air Force said it had killed some senior Boko Haram militants and believed it had fatally wounded the group`s leader in a raid on the Islamists` northeast heartland.

14 Aug 2016

Boko Haram releases new video of alleged Chibok girls

Boko Haram on Sunday released a video of the girls allegedly kidnapped from Chibok in April 2014, showing some who are still alive and claiming others died in air strikes.

04 Aug 2016

Boko Haram elusive chief Shekau says `still around in audio message

Boko Haram`s elusive leader Abubakar Shekau said in an audio message Thursday he is still around despite his reported ouster as head of the Nigeria-based jihadist group by the Islamic State (IS).

22 Jun 2016

Boko Haram fracturing over Islamic State ties, US general warns

Waldauser noted Shekau`s local focus and voiced concern about whether a splinter group might act more in concert with Islamic State`s transregional ambitions.

14 Apr 2016

Nigeria: Boko Haram sends `proof of life` video of Chibok girls

Two of the three mothers of the 219 schoolgirls still missing since the mass abduction on April 14, 2014 recognised their daughters on the video.

31 Oct 2015

Nigeria issues poster of 100 wanted Boko Haram militants

Nigeria's Army is posting photographs of 100 wanted Boko Haram militants including the shadowy leader whom they claim to have killed on at least three occasions.

08 Oct 2015

Boko Haram says leader Abubakar Shekau is alive in new video

Boko Haram said in a new video on Wednesday that its elusive leader Abubakar Shekau was alive and still in charge of the Nigeria-based Islamist group whose six-year insurgency has killed thousands.

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