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Abubakar Mohammed Shekau (23
March 1973 – 19 May 2021) was a
Nigerian militant who was the
leader of Boko Haram, an
Islamist extremist organization based...
- Province.
Founded by
Mohammed Yusuf in 2002, the
group was led by
Abubakar Shekau from 2009
until his
death in 2021,
although it
splintered into
other groups...
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autonomous groups and
started an insurgency,
though rebel commander Abubakar Shekau managed to
achieve a kind of
primacy among the insurgents.
Though challenged...
- Overall, the
relation of
Shekau with IS
remained confused and ambiguous. In the next years, Barnawi's
ISWAP and
Shekau's Boko
Haram both reconsolidated...
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cornering their leader Abubakar Shekau. The two
sides entered negotiations about Boko Haram's
surrender during which Shekau committed suicide,
possibly detonating...
- 2009 uprising.
After Yusuf's
death and the rise of his
successor Abubakar Shekau,
Bakura fought for Boko
Haram in the
escalating rural insurgency. Even though...
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claimed since 2016 to be the
rightful leader of Boko Haram,
opposing Abubakar Shekau. He was
reported as
living a
lavish lifestyle,
supposedly owning a Mercedes-Benz...
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Abubakar Shekau, a
former deputy of
Mohammed Yusuf,
appeared in a
video posted on YouTube.[citation needed]
According to Reuters,
Shekau took control...
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situation changed in 2015 when
Shekau pledged allegiance to ISIL. The
leadership of ISIL
eventually decided to
replace Shekau as a
local commander with Abu...
- Nigeria". www.formed.org.
Retrieved 21
April 2022.
Nigeria Const. § 4(1).
Shekau,
Abubakar (1 July 2018), "Message to Nigeria's
President Goodluck Jonathan"...
