Abubakar Shekau, video message released on YouTube, December 29, 2016

Author

Date

December 29, 2016

Name of Author

Abubakar Shekau

Body

“Our mission is to establish an Islamic caliphate [in Nigeria].”Associated Press, “Boko Haram leader: ‘The battle is just beginning,’” USA Today, December 31, 2016, http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/12/31/boko-haram-leader-battle-just-beginning/96034042/.

Rhetoric Category

Pro-Islamism

Threat

Boko Haram

Fact:

On September 26, 2018, an improvised explosive device planted at the foot of a bridge exploded, killing eight soldiers in the lead vehicle of a Burkinabe military convoy traveling in northern Burkina Faso.

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