Boko Haram has been 'decapitated' and its 'new' leader open to talks, Chad leader says

12 Aug 2015 12:45 AFP

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Deby says Nigerian jihadists can be defeated by end of the year, and have new leader called Mahamat Daoud. Deadly Abubakar Shekau is presumably dead.


Chad's President Idriss Deby declared that efforts to combat neighbouring Nigeria's Boko Haram jihadists could see it defeated by end of the year. (Photo/AFP).

CHAD’S President Idriss Deby declared Tuesday that efforts to combat neighbouring Nigeria’s Boko Haram jihadists had succeeded in “decapitating” the group and would be wrapped up “by the end of the year”.

Addressing reporters in the capital N’Djamena on the 55th anniversary of Chad’s independence from France, Deby said: “Boko Haram is decapitated. There are little groups (of Boko Haram members) scattered throughout east Nigeria, on the border with Cameroon. It is within our power to definitively overcome Boko Haram.”

“The war will be short, with the setting up of the regional force, it will be over by the end of the year,” Deby added, referring to a new five-country force aimed at ending Boko Haram’s bloody six-year Islamist insurgency that he said would be “operational in a few days”.

Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria have all pledged troops towards the new force.

Deby further claimed that Boko Haram was no longer led by the fearsome Abubakar Shekau and that his successor was open to talks.

“There is someone apparently called Mahamat Daoud who is said to have replaced Abubakar Shekau and he wants to negotiate with the Nigerian government.

“For my part, I would advise not to negotiate with a terrorist,” Deby, whose country has been spearheading the regional fightback against Boko Haram, said.

While claiming progress in the fight against the jihadists, who have repeatedly hit border areas of Cameroon, Chad and Niger, and wrought havoc in northeast Nigeria, Deby admitted that suicide bombers still posed a threat.

In the past few week, suicide bombers, many of them women, have staged several attacks in Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad.

The challenge, Deby said, was to “avoid terrorist acts and that’s why we must organise at the regional level to prevent bomb-making materials and other explosives entering our countries.”

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Change is in the air

Even bokoharam has changed Abubakar Shekau as its leader.

Its a season of Change

Who is actually deceiving who?

With hundreds of innocent mothers, fathers and children they've killed.

I stand in for "No room for Negotiations"
Kill them all untill no blood is alive to negotiate.

Keep decieving urself...

Keep decieving urself...after 50 confirmed dead yesterday

Does this mean that Shekau is dead

merry02:
Keep decieving urself...after 50 confirmed dead yesterday