Nigerian Government Says "Safe to Assume" Boko Haram Leader is Dead On August 23, Nigeria's government said that it no longer has any doubts that Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram, is dead. • Reports of Shekau's death first emerged three months ago following a confrontation between Boko Haram and

rying to kill himself to avoid capture during EFTA00149752 clashes with a rival extremist faction." AFP (5/20) reports Nigerian Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau "has been seriously wounded after trying to kill himself to avoid capture during clashes with rival Islamic State-allied jihadists in the north of t

r over poor governance and a lack of development in northern Nigeria, but it is also a core of Mohammed Tustin followers who have reconvened around Abubakar Shekau to exact revenge on the Nigerian state. At the same time, it can be viewed as a kind of personality cult, an Islamic millenarianist sect inspired b

r over poor governance and a lack of development in northern Nigeria, but it is also a core of Mohammed Yusufs followers who have reconvened around Abubakar Shekau to exact revenge on the Nigerian state. At the same time, it can be viewed as a kind of personality cult, an Islamic millenarianist sect inspired by