Nigeria’s top army commander killed in air crash ...United Arab Emirates

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Abuja: Nigeria’s top-ranking army commander Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru and other officers were killed on Friday when their plane crashed in the country’s north, the government said. Chief of Army Staff Attahiru was just appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari in January as part of a shakeup of the top military command to better fight surging violence and a more than decade-long jihadist insurgency. Attahiru died as news was also emerging that Nigeria’s Boko Haram jihadist leader Abubakar Shekau had himself been seriously wounded or possibly killed after clashes with a rival Daesh-allied faction. President Buhari, a former general first elected in 2015, has been under increasing pre

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