BOKO HARAM LEADER EMERGES
The Islamic State (ISIS) militant group has named a new leader for terrorist group Boko Haram. Creek Reporters
The new leader is Abu Musab al-Barnawi, who was former spokesman for the group, BBC reports.
Boko Haram former leader Abubakar Shekau
ISIS revealed the identity of the new leader, but did not say what has happened to the group’s former leader, Abubakar Shekau, who was last heard from in an audio message in August 2015.
Boko Haram had on March 7, 2015, pledged allegiance to the leadership of ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
The pledge was made by Shekau, who addressed himself as the Imam of Jamaátu Ahlus Sunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad (Boko Haram) and was addressed to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi al-Husseini al-Qurashi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
A week after Boko Haram’s pledge of allegiance, the ISIS leadership in a statement accepted the sect into its fold and promise to work with it to establish an ISIS cell in West Africa.
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