Nigeria president says Boko Haram leader has been wounded
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NAIROBI- Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari says the military wounded the leader of Boko Haram, his country's homegrown Islamic extremist group.
Nigeria's military said last week it had wounded Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau in an airstrike. The military said Shekau had been "fatally wounded" but stopped short of saying that he was dead.
Boko Haram, which has pledged allegiance to ISIS, no longer holds any Nigerian territory and the group has split into small groups attacking soft targets, said Buhari on Sunday, speaking on the sidelines of the Tokyo International Conference for Africa Development in Kenya.
