they were met with relief and suspicion in equal measure. in an audio recording, is the next eight west africa province said he died exposing —— exploding detonations on himself after a battle between the groups and a voice to be that of iswap leader but now we said we are so happy, describing abubakar shekau as the big troublemaker, persecutor and destructive leader of the nation ——al—barnawi. iswap split from boko haram in 2016, objecting against women suicide bombers and indiscriminate attacks. it was in a school in shiprock where hundreds of girls were abducted by boko haram in 2014, many of them remaining missing. another must kidnapping of schoolchildren also took place four years later —— chibok. more than 40,000 people have been killed and over 2 million displaced from their homes in boko haram's insurgency.