LATEST! New Boko Haram leader is Chadian, "Mahamat Daoud"

The man who report­edly replaced Abuba­kar Shekau as the leader of the Boko Haram sect is a national of the Re­public of Chad, this indica­tion emerged on Friday.
One Mahamat Daoud was given as the new lead­er of the insurgents by Chadian President Idriss Derby, to replace Shekau who the......
Nigerian military claimed was dead. Shek­au has not also been seen in recent video released by Boko Haram.
President Derby had at a news conference to commemorate Chad’s 55th Independence anni­versary at N’Djamena, the capital last Wednesday said the group now has a new leader.
“There is someone ap­parently called Mahamat Daoud who is said to have replaced Abubakar Shek­au and wants to negotiate with the Nigerian govern­ment,” he said at the press conference though he did not disclose his source of the information.

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