Boko Haram has released a new video without its embattled leader Abubakar
\nShekau, lending weight to claims by the Nigerian army he had been gravely
\nwounded in an air strike.<\/p>\n
The 13-minute video posted on YouTube late Tuesday<\/span><\/span> shows an unidentified Hundreds of poorly fed villagers and children, who are apparently Boko The man says he is representing Shekau, who had allegedly been ousted by \u201cMy brethren, today is Eid ..in the Islamic Caliphate under the leadership The Nigerian army claimed on August 23 Shekau had been seriously wounded \u201cWe convey our Eid greetings to our brethren all over the world under the He then taunts the government of President Muhammadu Buhari, saying Boko It was not immediately clear if the video, which was technically superior Nigerian soldiers, with the support of regional troops, have recaptured Despite earlier claims by the Nigerian government that Shekau had been Last month, the IS replaced Shekau with Abu Musab al-Barnawi, the son of Boko Haram has also released a video showing at least one of the more than The mass kidnapping of schoolgirls from the remote town of Chibok provoked Nigeria is facing security threats on multiple fronts: Boko Haram Boko Haram has released a new video without its embattled leader Abubakar Shekau, lending weight to claims by the Nigerian army he had been gravely wounded in an air strike.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nman in a flowing white robe and a sword dangling by his side presiding
\nover Eid prayers in a mosque.<\/p>\n
\nHaram supporters, are seen in the video filmed on Monday<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n
\nthe Islamic State to which Boko Haram pledged allegiance in March 2015.<\/p>\n
\nof Abubakar Shekau, may Allah protect him,\u201d he says, speaking in the local
\nHausa language.<\/p>\n
\nin the shoulder in an air raid in which several commanders were killed.<\/p>\n
\nIslamic Caliphate and especially our leader Abubakar Shekau, may Allah
\nprotect him,\u201d the man in the video says.<\/p>\n
\nHaram would fight on despite a military crackdown, adding: \u201cNo retreat, no
\nsurrender.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nto previous ones, was shot in Boko Haram\u2019s Sambisa forest stronghold in
\nthe northern state of Borno or elsewhere.<\/p>\n
\nswathes of territory lost to the jihadists since they launched a military
\ncampaign in February 2014.<\/p>\n
\nkilled, the militant leader has resurfaced later in videos.<\/p>\n
\nBoko Haram founder Mohammed Yusuf, in an apparent split in the group whose
\ninsurgency has killed some 20,000 and displaced more than 2.6 million
\nsince 2009.<\/p>\n
\n200 schoolgirls kidnapped from Chibok more than two years ago, and called
\nfor its detained fighters to be freed.<\/p>\n
\nglobal outrage and brought unprecedented attention to Boko Haram and its
\nbloody quest to create a fundamentalist state in northeastern Nigeria.<\/p>\n
\nIslamists in the northeast, Biafran separatists in the southeast, oil
\nrebels in the south and nomadic herdsmen in the central states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"