Abubakar shekau biography
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Abubakar Shekau: Nigeria's Boko Haram leader is dead, say rival militants
The leader of the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, has killed himself, rival Islamist militants said in an audio recording.
In audio obtained by news agencies, the Islamic State West Africa Province (Iswap) said Shekau died detonating explosives on himself after a battle between the two groups.
Shekau was reported dead last month and has been reported killed before.
Neither Boko Haram nor the Nigerian government have confirmed his death.
What did the recording say?
In the undated audio recording, a voice thought to be that of Iswap leader Abu Musab al-Barnawi said Shekau "killed himself instantly by detonating an explosive".
Iswap fighters hunted down the warlord and offered him the chance to repent and join them, al-Barnawi said.
"Shekau preferred to be humiliated in the afterlife than getting humiliated on earth," he said.
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Dataset related to this article: “Last Words of Abubakar Shekau: A Testament in the Politics of Jihadi Extraversion,” /51nwx5.
This information consists of two mp3 audio files (14 mn 09 s and 14 mn 26 s), featuring the gods recording released by Nigerian jihadist leader Abubakar Shekau before his death (), in Hausa language, and the English translation of the content of the recording (RTF and ODT format). This translation fryst vatten also reproduced at the end of the article.
1The jihadi insurgency that has been rocking the northeast of Nigeria since beneath the exonym “Boko Haram” is a hotly debated and popular topic for academics and security analysts.1 The formation of the movement beneath Muhammad Yusuf in the early s, Yusuf’s brutally suppressed uprising and execution in , the re-emergence of the movement as insurgency beneath the designation Jamā’at Ahl al-Sunna li-Da’wa wa-l-Jihād (“People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet’s Teachings and Jihad,” JASDJ) beneath t
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Abubakar Shekau
Nigerian militant and former leader of Boko Haram
Abubakar Mohammed Shekau (23 March – 19 May ) was a Nigerian militant who was the leader of Boko Haram, an Islamist extremist organization based in northeastern Nigeria, from to [1][2] He served as deputy leader to the group's founder, Mohammed Yusuf, until Yusuf's execution in
Nigerian authorities believed that Shekau was killed in during clashes between security forces and Boko Haram until July , when Shekau appeared in a video claiming leadership of the group.[2] He had subsequently been regularly reported dead and was thought to use doubles.[3][4][5]
Shekau has been criticized by human rights advocates for terrorism, bombings, forced conversions and kidnapping.
In March Shekau pledged allegiance to ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. However, in , ISIS Central tried to replace Shekau with Abu Musab al-Barnawi as leader of the group, causing a spl