Nigeria : Who was the targeted Islamic State leader & why was he targeted by the US ? • FRANCE 24

On May 16, a senior IS figure was killed in a strike led by Nigerian and US forces as part of a joint operation to target jihadists of the group in the northeast of Nigeria. But although al-Minuki was a prominent figure of the IS group, he wasn't the second-in-command of IS worldwide, as US President Donald Trump claimed at the time of his killing. FRANCE 24's Wassim Nasr tells us more about who he was, and what his death means for Nigeria.
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