US Offers $7m reward for Boko Haram leader Shekau's arrest

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The United States Department of State is offering a reward of up to $7m for information leading to the arrest of Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau.

Shekau has been the leader of Boko Haram since the extrajudicial killing of its former leader, Mohammed Yusuf, in 2009. Boko Haram’s past targets have included suicide bombings of police buildings and the United Nations office in Abuja. The group has carried out mass abductions including the kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls from Chibok in April 2014 and two years ago, abducted some schoolgirls from Dapchi in Yobe State, releasing all of them except Leah Sharibu who refused to deny her Christian faith.

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