Niger’s army killed the leader of the Jihadist Grouping Boko Haram last week. AFP news agency reports this based on a statement from the army. It was about Bakura Doro, who was killed in the Tjaadbekken, on the border area of Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon.
“On August 15, 2025, Niger’s armed forces, during a surgical operation, the notorious Bakura – whose real name Ibrahim Mahamadou is – disabled,” said the army in the report of its operations.
Bakura accepted a leadership position within Boko Haram after the death of former leader Abubakar Shekau and the internal struggle that followed. According to Niger’s army, he was about forty years old and from Nigeria. Bakura is associated with, among other things, the kidnapping of more than 300 students in Nigeria in March 2024 and with several suicide attacks on markets, mosques and citizen meetings.
Boko Haram, one of the most important jihadist organizations in the region, started an uprising in neighboring Nigeria in 2009 with the aim of creating an Islamic caliphate. Since then there have been more than 40,000 deaths due to the violence of Boko Haram. More than two million people have become displaced before the organization spread to neighboring countries Niger, Chad and Cameroon. In 2015, Niger had to deal with attacks by Boko Haram for the first time.