Most of that seems to wash over Abubakar Shekau the public face of the Boko Haram leadership whose video addresses make much of his detestation for democracy which he views as 'worse than sodomy'...
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Boko Haram's fighting and logistical capability has increased under Abubakar Shekau's leadership...
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However in a digital recording in Hausa sent to the media in mid-April Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau rejected any negotiation with government: ‘What wrong have we done...
Boko Haram is particularly anxious to secure the release of the wife and two children of its leader Abubakar Shekau aka Abu Mohammed who were captured by Nigeria’s Joint Task Force on 24 September last year...
Security officials in Abuja say militants from the Boko Haram Islamist militia have received instruction in combat and bomb-making in training camps in northern Mali and that some of the group’s leaders have sought sanctuary there after Nigerian security forces stepped up the hunt for Abubakar Shekau and other Boko Haram leaders...
On 29 November in a 39-minute video monitored by SITE Intelligence Group a United States-based organisation that tracks Islamist websites Boko Haram’s Abubakar Shekau said (in Arabic) ‘We are with our mujahideen brothers in the cause of Allah everywhere’...
Kambar Abubakar Shekau (aka Abu Mohammed) and Khalid Barnawi (aka Abu Hafsat) were in June designated global terrorists by the United States claiming they had close links to Al Qaida...
US sanctions and complaints Jonathan has persuaded the United States to impose sanctions on the presumed leaders of Boko Haram such as Abubakar Shekau Khalid al Barnawi and Abubakar Adam Kamba...
The leader Abubakar Shekau was second-in-command until Mohammed Yusuf was killed in police custody in July 2009...
Yusuf's second-in-command Abubakar Shekau* was also killed...