Online Reporter
Soldiers from Niger’s army have killed a leader of the Boko Haram jihadist group, the West African country’s military announced on Thursday.
The “notorious” Ibrahim Mahamadu, known as Bakoura, was neutralised during a “surgical operation” on Shilawa Island in Niger’s Diffa region, in the Lake Chad Basin near Niger’s borders with Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon, last week, according to a Nigerien Armed Forces statement.
“Very early in the morning of August 15 an air force fighter aircraft launched three targeted and successive strikes on the positions Bakoura used to occupy in Shilawa,” it stated.
Several other militant leaders were also killed in the assault.
Diffa, in southeastern Niger, has long served as a staging ground and hideout for the Boko Haram group, led by Bakoura. – RT
