With his gruesome videos and fierce rhetoric, Abubakar Shekau is the public face of Boko Haram, the Islamist insurrection against the Nigerian secular state centered in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states.

Chadian President Idriss Deby’s August 11 comments that Abubakar Shekau has been replaced by Mahamat Daoud and that the latter is open to negotiations with Nigeria’s Buhari government, has predictably ...

There are rumours that Shekau can no longer walk. Shekau and his terrorist Boko Haram sect have killed more than 50,000 people and displaced millions from their homes since 2009. In December of 2020, ...

Shekau is on the run disguised as a woman dressed in Hijab. In a statement signed by the Director Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Sani Usman, on Tuesday, February 13, 2018, the army's ...

LAGOS, Nigeria -- Abubakar Shekau said Thursday he is still the leader of Boko Haram, rejecting a successor announced hours earlier by the Islamic State group and exposing the biggest rift yet among ...

Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, has said in a new audio message quoted on social media on Sunday that he is still alive and leading the sect. However, the authenticity of the audio message has not ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at Boko Haram, a militant Islamic group working out of Nigeria, whose purpose is to institute Sharia, or Islamic law. In the local Hausa dialect, Boko Haram means “Western ...

Leader of the Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau, has denied any involvement in peace talks with the Federal Government. His denial was contained in a video released by the sect yesterday. The video ...