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Nigeria, the head of Boko Haram died: “He committed suicide to avoid being caught by his rivals”

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Abubakar Shekau, leader of Boko Haram, died. He would have committed suicide so as not to be captured alive by the militants of the Islamic State of the West African province (Iswap). This was claimed by Nigerian intelligence, cited by local media, according to which the head of the terrorist organization died after blowing himself up with a bomb or after shooting himself with a rifle.

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In a situation report released today, Nigerian intelligence reports that “on May 19, 2021, around 6:29 pm, Iswap officer Baana Duguri informed Logistics Commander Modu Sulum of the killing of the leader of Boko Haram. , Abubakar Shekau, in the Sambisa forest ». The same impenetrable forest that for ten years has been the impregnable stronghold of Boko Haram.

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Duguri, reads the report released by the local media, “revealed that the Iswap team of fighters surrounded the leader of Boko Haram and his men, and gunfights between the two factions followed. Duguri added that Shekau detonated a bomb and killed himself when he realized that Iswap fighters were about to capture him alive ».

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Following the news of Shekau’s death, the Nigerian Ministry of Defense has placed all the commands and forces deployed in the northeastern state of Borno on alert, fearing that the clashes between Iswap and Boko Haram could continue.

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Iswap is Boko Haram’s secessionist faction backed by Isis, which has emerged as the dominant force in the jihadist insurgency that has now lasted for nearly twenty years. According to official estimates, more than 40,000 people have been killed and over 2 million have been displaced by the conflict in northeastern Nigeria, with fighting that has spread to parts of neighboring Chad, Cameroon and Niger.

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