This screengrab taken on August 8, 2016 from a Boko Haram video released by the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram and obtained by AFP shows Boko Haram’s shadowy leader Abubakar Shekau as he appeares in a new video vowing to fight on, shrugging off an apparent split in the hardline jihadist group blamed for thousands of deaths since 2009. “I… Abubakar Ash-Shakawy (Shekau), the leader of Jama’atu Ahlissunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, made it a duty for myself (to fight) Nigeria and the whole world,” Shekau said in the video released on August 7, 2016, using the group’s name since it declared allegiance to the so-called Islamic State. Vanguard
Four UN aid workers, all Nigerians, have been killed in a night attack by Boko Haram insurgents at Rann community in Kala Balge Local Government of Borno.
A female aid worker was also missing while one other sustained injuries in the attack on Thursday.
Samantha Newport, Head of Communications, UNICEF Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), confirmed the incident to Newsmen on Friday in Maidguri.
Newport said two of the deceased were contractors of the UN client organisation, International Organisation of Migration ( IOM), deployed to Rann as camp managers.
She added that others killed were a medical doctor working as consultant with UNICEF and an aid worker with International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) affiliate organisation.
The UNICEF communications head said a female nurse was abducted, while another female aid worker was injured in the attack.
She explained that all the deceased personnel were Nigerians, adding that the world body would soon issue a statement on the incident.
Meanwhile, competent sources in Rann told newsmen that the insurgents attacked the town at about 7 p.m. on Thursday.
The source added that the insurgents, moving in gun trucks and motorcycles, infiltrated the town and attacked a military base and a displaced persons’ camp.
Military authorities have yet to comment on the incident.
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