(FILES) This file screengrab made on January 15, 2018, from a video released the same day by Islamist militant group Boko Haram shows Boko Haram factional leader Abubakar Shekau holding a heavy machine gun at an undisclosed location in Nigeria. - Nigerian Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has been seriously wounded after trying to kill himself to avoid capture during clashes with rival Islamic State-allied jihadists in the north of the country, two intelligence sources said May 20, 2021. Shekau's Boko Haram faction and fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province had been battling in northeastern Borno state, where ISWAP militants have become the dominant force in Nigeria's more than decade-long jihadist insurgency. Shekau, who made international headlines when his men kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls in Chibok in 2014, has been reported dead several times since Boko Haram first began its insurgency in 2009. (Photo by Handout / BOKO HARAM / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / BOKO HARAM" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS
Le groupe Boko Haram a confirmé la mort de son chef Aboubacar Shekau lors d’affrontements avec l’organisation de l’état islamique en Afrique de l’ouest, dans une vidéo obtenue par l’agence France presse mercredi auprès de sources qualifiées de crédibles.
Dans cette vidéo, Boko Haram confirme la mort de son chef lors de combats avec l’organisation de l’état islamique, une information déjà révélée par Daech et les renseignements américains et nigérians.
Le mouvement armé révèle le nom de son nouveau chef, Bakora Modou alias Chaba qui a menacé l’organisation de l’état islamique de représailles et son chef Abou Moussaab El Barnaoui et demandé que la mort de Shekau soit vengée.
