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Confident Mark Hari

Senior Analyst and Geopolitics Analyst at SBM Intelligence, covering Nigerian and West African security, political risk, and geopolitics.

Aug 14, 2026

3:59
northeast.
4:00
In one of those strikes and that pressure that was brought upon Yusuf, the Nigerian militia was able to capture some media guys from the group and then found recording and a lot of other sensitive material which sort of opened the military's understanding through the leadership hierarchy of the group.
4:25
It was those information they got from seized cameras and information from reading ASAP as well as arrested and detained insurgents that this particular list of senior figures came out from.
4:41
To answer your question as to whether it is what is needed, I don't know if this is what is needed.
4:48
The military has The security services in general have a track record in eliminating senior figures of armed groups, violent non-state armed groups.
4:59
But with the leadership of Boko Haram and its affiliates groups, I think ever since 2012, when the SSR arrested Khalid al-Bannawi, the funding The founder of Ansar al-Bukharaan's first breakaway faction, we haven't seen that street continue with that.
5:21
Shekal died in 2021 and was because of a renewed clash with Islamic State faction.
6:46
So if I'm with somebody

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