Everything We Know About Boko Haram’s Abubakar Shekau

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Nigeria says he was killed in a government airstrike. But reports of his death are not infrequent
Nigeria claimed on Tuesday that its air force had killed a number of senior Boko Haram militants, possibly including the group’s elusive and notorious former leader, Abubakar Shekau.
Government planes attacked the fighters in the village of Taye inside the Sambisa forest in Borno State during a raid on the Islamists’ northeast heartland on Friday night, Reuters reports. Army spokesman Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman said, in a statement, that “Their leader, so called ‘Abubakar Shekau’, is believed to be fatally wounded on his shoulders.”
However, this is at least the fourth time Shekau’s death has been reported. Despite the military declaring him killed in 2009, a man purporting to be Shekau reappeared in videos posted on the internet less than a year later, when he ridiculed suggestions of his death.

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