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Wednesday, 3 August 2016

ISIS names Al-Barnawi Boko Haram leader

Bokoharam members
                             

Terrorist association, the Islamic State, has named Abu Musab al-barnawi as the new pioneer of Boko Haram, as indicated by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Al-Barnawi is highlighted in ISIS' most recent magazine, the BBC reported.


It is not clear what might or has happened to Abubakar Shekau, who had driven the terrorist bunch since its originator, Mohammed Yusuf, was slaughtered in 2009.

Boko Haram had promised fidelity to ISIS mid 2015. Be that as it may, very little had been gotten notification from Shekau from that point forward.

He last showed up in a video in the midst of hypothesis that he had been murdered, proclaiming that the end had wanted him.

"For me the end has come," he had said in the video, which was curbed contrasted with his different recordings in which he gloated and provoked the Nigerian government.

Under his authority, the gathering had conveyed assaults in a few states in the North East, murdering thousands and dislodging a huge number of Nigerians.

As a feature of its exercises the gathering did a few snatchings including that of the 276 Chibok schoolgirls, who have yet to be saved over two years after the stunning occurrence.

It likewise guaranteed obligation regarding assaults on the United Nations Office, Abuja and in addition impacts in the Nyanya hub of the Federal Capital Territory.

A late push by the Goodluck Jonathan organization and an invasion by the present organization has brought about the passings and captures of a large number of the guerillas with survivors withdrawing into the Sambisa Forest.

Source: BBC news

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