{"id":123480,"date":"2021-05-21T10:46:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T02:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=123480"},"modified":"2021-05-21T10:46:30","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T02:46:30","slug":"boko-haram-leader-abubakar-shekau-reportedly-blew-himself-up-after-captured-by-rivals-nigeria-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=123480","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau reportedly blew himself up after captured by rivals &#8211; Nigeria media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Boko-Haram-leader-Abubakar-Shekau-killed-by-rivals-Nigeria-media-1266139?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/713\/71385640.295.jpg\" alt=\"Abubakar Shekau is leader of Boko Haram\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>Abubakar Shekau is leader of Boko Haram<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> ABUJA, May 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Local media outlets in Nigeria are reporting the death of famed Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HumAngle, a website focused on conflict reporting in the Lake Chad region said it had verified the death from multiple sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This incident took place on Wednesday evening following the invasion of the terror group\u2019s stronghold in the Sambisa forest area by a column of Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters, the HumAmgle report said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ISWAP, originally part of Boko Haram, broke off from the main Shekau-led Boko Haram group in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boko Haram at the time and till date pays allegiance to Al-Qaeda whiles ISWAP pledges alliegiance to the Daesh group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shekau\u2019s enclave was tracked down by ISWAP using its forces based in the Timbuktu Triangle. His fighters were killed in the process, followed by a long gunfire exchange between the invading group and Shekau\u2019s bodyguards, the report added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HumAngle said Shekau&#8217;s bodyguards were subdued after which he surrendered and agreed to voluntarily relinquish power and ask his fighters to pledge allegiance to ISWAP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deliberations took place in the famous Sambisa forest where Shekau has been headquartered. He apparently blew up a hidden suicide vest he had on, killing all persons around him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shekau had been the leader of Boko Haram since 2009 following the death of the group\u2019s founder, Mohammed Yusuf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had been rumoured to have been killed about five times in the last decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One key instance was in August 2016, when the Nigerian Air Force claimed he had been \u201cfatally wounded\u201d by military bombardments, but the terror group released a video only a month later showing he was alive and in good health. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abubakar Shekau is leader of Boko Haram ABUJA, May 21 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Local media outlets in Nigeria are reporting the death of famed Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau. HumAngle, a website focused on conflict reporting in the Lake Chad region said it had verified the death from multiple sources. This incident took place on Wednesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":123483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123480"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/123483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}