Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau has resurfaced in a new video, but looks nothing like his usual eccentric self. Shekau is seen in the new video looking weak and ill and seems to be speaking as if he has lost his purpose. Here are seven things the Boko Haram leader said in the video, according to a translation provided by AFP:

 “This is a message of greeting and joy for you to see my face.”

“This is my desire: that whoever sees this will hear nothing but greetings between me and you.”

“Only Allah knows the rest, as you believed (and) as you submitted. For me the end has come.”

“This is only the message I want to send to you for you to understand that this is certainly I. This is why I did this.”

 “May Allah protect us so that no hypocrite stands between us.”

“May Allah protect us from the devil so that he doesn't achieve his evil among us.”


 “May Allah protect us and may we stand firm on the path of Allah. I thank my creator.”


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About 20 people were killed and 90 wounded by a bomb explosion in a mosque in the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Monday, the state emergency agency NEMA said. The blast came a day after the army fought Boko Haram militants west of Maiduguri, capital of Borno state and birthplace of their campaign to create an Islamic state in the northeast of Africa's most populous country. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the blast bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram, whose insurgency has killed thousands and displaced some 2.1 million people in the region.

Monday's blast happened in a western suburb where the army had exchanged fire on Sunday with suspected Boko Haram fighters who it said had tried to slip into Maiduguri to stage suicide bombings. Residents then reported explosions and heavy gunfire. Musa Abdukadir, a resident, said that after the mosque attack he had counted the bodies of more than 50 victims in the state specialist hospital in Maiduguri. Medics had told him more bodies had been brought to two other hospitals. The count included victims from Sunday's fighting. "We all fled yesterday as our houses were on fire. This morning we came back, and while we were counting the people who had burned in the houses, another bomb exploded," said Ibrahim Goni, a resident who said he had visited the blast scene. An army counter-offensive earlier this year recaptured most of the territory Boko Haram had seized over the past few years. Boko Haram has since reverted to a strategy of hitting soft targets such as markets, bus stations and places of worship, as well as hit-and-run attacks on villages, mainly in Borno state.

The new face of Boko Haram. Not identified yet, so we call him Shekau. BBC News Photo Nigeria’s Boko Haram now has a new face for their misguided struggle to establish an Islamic Republic over the country. In a new video, just like the last one released in June, the well known leader of the group, Abubakar Shekau was again conspicuously missing, further confirming speculations that he is either seriously wounded or dead.

The new eight-minute video, shows an unidentified young man, who speaks in the name of the Islamic State in West Africa calling on people to be patient: “We are still present everywhere we had been before.” The man speaks in the regional Hausa language, with subtitles in Arabic and English. The video shows the militants attacking a security checkpoint, seizing weapons, and slitting the throat of a man dressed in a police uniform.