Nigerian Army Chief Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru died this Friday in the fall of a military aircraft, according to an official source. Air Force spokesman Edward Gabkwet, confirmed to AFP the death of the leader of the Nigerian Army and seven other people in the plane crash, in the early evening at Kaduna airport (north), without giving details about the causes. The 54-year-old officer was appointed chief of Army on 26 January, by Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari. The death of the head of the Nigerian Army comes two days after the leader of the jihadist group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, was seriously wounded in the north-east of the country after a confrontation with fighters from a rival Islamic terrorist group (ISWAP, with ties to the Islamic State) The Nigerian army has been fighting since 2009 against a ‘jihadist’ insurgency in the north-east of the country, a conflict that claimed more than 40,000 lives and displaced more than two million people. (RM /NMinuto) Source: Rádio Moçambique Online
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