The Dead Boko Haram leader seen 'alive' again in video
Video obtained by agency shows man, appearing to be Abubakar Shekau, dismissing Nigerian military claims of his death.
Video obtained by agency shows man, appearing to be Abubakar Shekau, dismissing Nigerian military claims of his death.
A man appearing to be Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has dismissed Nigerian military claims of his death in a new video obtained by the AFP news agency.
"Here I am, alive. I will only die the day Allah takes my breath," Shekau said, adding that his group was "running our... Islamic caliphate" and administering strict Sharia punishments in captured towns.
The military announced last week that Shekau was dead and that a man who had been posing as the group's leader in the earlier videos had been killed after fighting with troops in the far northeast.
But security analysts and the United States questioned the credibility of the military's claim.
Meanwhile, the Reuters news agency stated that it had seen screen grabs of the video and that the man looked different from before, with a wider nose, less defined bridge and a rounder face compared to Shekau.
