Nigeria’s Boko Haram leader is dead, says ISWAP
By Reuters
07 June 2021 |
10:30 am
The Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) militant group said in an audio recording heard by Reuters on Sunday that Abubakar Shekau, leader of rival Nigerian militant Islamist group Boko Haram, was dead.
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