
Boko Haram Claims Its Leader Abubakar Shekau Is Still Alive
Boko Haram jihadists, in a new propaganda video, claimed that their leader, Abubakar Shekau, who did not appear in the film, is still alive and leading the terrorist group.

Boko Haram jihadists, in a new propaganda video, claimed that their leader, Abubakar Shekau, who did not appear in the film, is still alive and leading the terrorist group.

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has released an audio message in which he confirms he is still alive and calls himself the “governor” of the Islamic State West Africa Province, the new name for Boko Haram under ISIS.

Idriss Déby, the president of Chad, pronounced the battle against the notorious ISIS-linked terrorists of Boko Haram a rousing success on Tuesday, declaring that the group had been “decapitated” and would be mopped up “by the end of the year.”

Nigerian jihadist group Boko Haram– now known as the Islamic State West Africa Province– released a new video this week showing off new weapons and graphically depicting the beheading of a Nigerian policeman. The new Boko Haram video’s production value seems to indicate it was produced with help from ISIS, and leader Abubakar Shekau’s absence once again is raising questions.

Boko Haram has released a new video under the Islamic State in West Africa moniker, in which they display the alleged remains of a Nigerian military jet and claim the Sambisa Forest raid last month did little to weaken their operation.

A Spanish court has filed a formal complaint against the Nigerian jihadist terror group Boko Haram, citing the principle of universal justice, after discovering a Spanish victim of the group: a nun who was accosted in 2013 by terrorists belonging to the group.

With all due respect to Nigerian media, it should be noted that at the time of this writing, only Nigerian outlets seem to be reporting on the alleged death of five Boko Haram militants in Mosul, Iraq, where they were said to be training with Islamic State fighters.

The Daily Post of Nigeria finds it unsurprising that Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau did not show up at Lincoln Center in New York to collect his award as one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World.”

Military forces from Niger, Nigeria, Chad, and Cameroon have now encircled Boko Haram forces and are trying to capture the group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, alive.

A mob in the northeastern city of Bauchi, Nigeria, beat a woman to death and set her on fire after vigilantes aroused suspicion that she was a Boko Haram-affiliated suicide bomber. The woman was found to have no association to terrorism, her erratic behavior explained by a history of mental illness.

President Idriss Deby of Chad told reporters during a joint press conference with Niger’s head of state that his military knows the whereabouts of Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, and that it was in the “best interests” of the terrorist leader to surrender.

The degree of coordination between Nigerian terror gang Boko Haram and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been a topic of much speculation among counterterrorism analysts. It has long been a matter of record that Boko Haram idolized ISIS and sought to emulate their ideology and tactics, creating a “caliphate” of their own in Africa.

Some good news came out of Nigeria over the weekend, as Boko Haram was pushed out of Baga, a town on Lake Chad where an estimated 2,000 were slaughtered by the terrorist gang last month.

In a new video, a man claiming to be Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau took responsibility for the massacre in Baga, Nigeria, in early January, claiming that God told them to do it. Local officials and human rights groups put the death toll at 2,000, but the Nigerian army reported only 150 deaths.

A man claiming to be the leader of Nigerian jihadist terror group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has appeared in a new video this week praising the organizers of the attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, condemning the Western nation’s “religion of democracy” and proclaiming that his terrorist group is “very happy” with the attack.

After a coordinated three-day rampage on the town of Baga in northeast Nigeria, as well 15-20 other nearby towns, up to 2000 resident civilians have been killed.