Abu Musab al-Barwani replaces Abubakar Shekau as Boko Haram Leader

 

UPI report stated Boko Haram, the Islamist insurgent group in Nigeria affiliated with the Islamic State, has a new leader, IS announced through a magazine in the middle-east.

Abu Musab al-Barwani, formerly Boko Haram’s spokesman, was identified in the weekly IS magazine Naba as its West African “governor.” The magazine did not mention the whereabouts of the previous Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau.
In a seven-year campaign to install a Muslim caliphate in Nigeria, over 20,000 people have been killed and millions have fled the country.

He was most recently heard in an August 2015 announcement, saying that he remains alive. But he has not been seen since Boko Haram announced its alignment with IS in 2015.