August 5, 2016

New York Times: Boko Haram Leader Speaks on YouTube, Deepening Signs of Split

August 4th, 2016

The New York Times

Dionne Searcey, West Africa bureau chief of the New York Times, interviewed Yan St-Pierre on a new voice recording described by security experts as coming from the longtime leader of Boko Haram.

“It’s a very public divorce in many ways,” said Yan St-Pierre, a counterterrorism adviser and chief executive of the Modern Security Consulting Group in Berlin. (…) “This could weaken them like it does any organization,” Mr. St-Pierre said. “And that could play into the Nigerian military’s favor.”

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