VOA: Boko Haram Chief Signals Possible Retirement – Interview with Yan St-Pierre

March 24, 2016

VOA News journalist Dan Joseph quoted Yan St-Pierre in his article on Shekau’s video appearance: “Boko Haram Chief Signals Possible Retirement“.

Yan St-Pierre, head of the German security firm MOSECON, says Shekau may be preparing Boko Haram for a leadership change.

“[He] is basically setting up the transition phase of Boko Haram leadership in a way that can be internally clean, by which he is already preparing fighters to a possible exit, and that the fight will go on,” St-Pierre said. “An exit on his own terms allows Boko Haram to bring a certain level of closure to the myth of Shekau and pave the way to new leadership that would have a certain level of legitimacy.”

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