Nigeria, neighbours in joint operation against Boko Haram leaders

Reports say four West African States have launched a major offensive against the Boko Haram jihadist group in Nigeria. 

Soldiers from Nigeria and the neighbouring countries of Cameroon, Chad and Niger are targeting a Boko Haram faction led by Abubakar Shekau in the Sambisa Forest, and another led by Mamman Nur, on and around Lake Chad.  

According to the Nigerian military, scores of jihadists have been killed and hundreds of others have been forced to surrender in recent days. 

Top officials in Abuja have claimed that Nur had been injured and one of his wives killed in an aerial bombardment.

SOURCE: NEWS24
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