Boko Haram: US Places $23m Reward For Shekau, 4 Others

In an unprecedented move, the United States of America yesterday placed a $23 million bounty on leaders of militant groups which have spread terror in West Africa and Nigeria in particular.

The highest reward of up to $7 million is offered for the leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram extremists, Abubakar Shekau, while $5 million each was posted for Al-Qaeda veteran Mokhtar Belmokhtar and Yahya Abou Al-Hammam, a top figure in Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, US officials said.

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