Nearly 6,000 extremists surrender in northeast Nigeria: army ...Kuwait

The Nigerian army says nearly 6,000 Islamist extremists have surrendered in the country's northeast in recent weeks, marking one of the largest defections since the 12-year insurgency began. The announcement Thursday by military spokesman Bernard Onyeuko comes several weeks after Nigeria's army had announced that some 335 militants had laid down their arms. The mass defections also follow the reported death of Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau in May, whose control over the group had been substantially weakened in recent years as a breakaway faction known as Islamic State West Africa Province, or ISWAP, rose to prominence. ISWAP's leader has said that Shekau detonate

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