Nigeria featured strongly on the UN Security Council’s sanctions list updated on June 1, 2026, naming individuals and ...

Abubakar Shekau, who gained notoriety after kidnapping nearly 300 schoolgirls in 2014, killed himself last month rather than ...

Nigerian Terrorist Abubakar Shekau: Dead or Alive—and Does it Matter? Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau holds a weapon in an unknown location in Nigeria in this still image taken from an undated video ...

Abdulkadir Abubakar was arrested by the military in Buni Yadi, Gujba local government area of Yobe State in June of 2017. Still in custody, the Boko Haram commander has been singing like a fatigued ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Nigeria's government has said that the longtime leader of militant ...

In many ways, Boko Haram and its leader, Abubakar Shekau, are shrouded in mystery. But that is beginning to change. Abdulbasit Kassim and Michael Nwankpa recently published The Boko Haram Reader, an ...

The leader of Boko Haram — the Nigerian terror group that has killed tens of thousands of people and kidnapped hundreds of schoolchildren — has killed himself ...

A 32 year-old former Boko Haram Commander, Rawana Goni, has appealed to the Nigerian military authorities to allow him make a phone call to the elusive leader, Abubakar Shekau and Ahmad Salkida, a ...