Boko Haram leader arrested by Nigeria military

Nigeria’s military says it has arrested the alleged leader of an offshoot faction of Boko Haram. Khalid al-Barnawi who is believed to lead Islamist militant group Ansaru, is being detained in the central city of Lokoja. In 2012, the U.S. State Department linked Al-Barnawi, also known as Mohammed Usman, to Boko Haram and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Ansaru claimed responsibility for holding French engineer Francis Collomp for almost a year before he was freed in November 2013. The group also killed seven foreigners working for Setraco Nigeria Limited, when they were seized in a February 2013 attack at their residential compound in the northern state of Bauchi.

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