War has just begun – Shekau warns Trump

Shekau has declared war against US president-elect Donald Trump 

The Boko Haram leader says he and his members remain steadfast by 

their faith and will not stop Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Nigerian 

jihadist group Boko Haram, has reacted to the election of Donald Trump 

as the United States president. In an audio message published on the 

group’s YouTube page on Sunday night, November 13, Shekau said 

they will “not be fooled by people like Donald Trump or anyone 

in the coalition who is fighting our brothers in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan 

or anywhere else.”

Shekau warns Trump that war has just begun

The Boko Haram leader warned that the war has just begun, The Punch reports.

Although, the IS high command said in August that Shekau had been replaced as leader by Abu Musab al-Barnawi, the 22-year-old son of Boko Haram’s founder Mohammed Yusuf, he (Shekau) still claims he is in charge. 

Exactly a month ago, the jihadist group released 21 out of the over 200 kidnapped school girls from Chibok after negotiations with the Nigerian government. Over 20,000 people have died and 2.6 million displaced since 2009 when Abubakar Shekau took over as the head of Boko Haram.