The Washington Post: Is Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau dead this time?

May 20th, 2021

Danielle Paquette, The Washington Post‘s West Africa bureau chief, interviewed Yan St-Pierre on the alleged death of Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau.

Lately the larger force had been expanding its reach across northern Nigeria and into Cameroon, said Yan St-Pierre, a counterterrorism adviser and head of the Modern Security Consulting Group in Berlin. “The last remaining domino was the Sambisa forest,” he said — Shekau’s stronghold.

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