MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) -- Dozens of emaciated-looking Boko Haram members begging for food have surrendered in northeast Nigeria, the military and a civilian self-defense fighter said Wednesday.

Seventy-six people including children and women gave themselves up to soldiers last Saturday in Gwoza, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) southeast of Maiduguri, according to a senior officer.

All are being detained at military headquarters in Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram and currently the command center of the war against the Islamic extremists, according to the officer. He insisted on anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to journalists.

The detainees said many more fighters want to surrender, a self-defense civilian fighter who helped escort them to Maiduguri told The Associated Press.

Food shortages could indicate that Nigeria's military is succeeding in choking supply routes of the Islamic extremists who have taken their fight across Nigeria's borders. Some 20,000 people have died in the 6-year-old uprising. Boko Haram was declared the deadliest of all terror groups in 2014, surpassing the Islamic State group to which it declared allegiance last year.

Nigeria's military reported that dozens of Boko Haram fighters were surrendering in September and October last year. It promised those who give themselves up voluntarily that they will be rehabilitated through a de-radicalization program.

In the 10 months since he took office promising to halt the insurgency, President Muhammadu Buhari has replaced the leadership of the military, moved the headquarters for the fight from the distant capital, Abuja, to the heart of the northeastern insurgency and resupplied soldiers.

The military has driven the insurgents from the towns and villages where they had set up an Islamic caliphate but Boko Haram has returned to hit-and-run tactics and suicide bombings.


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the war is finally won...... I will give that to general buhari

Good one, success from maitasine to boko Haram. Lets apply the same success to the economy and finally shut up all distractors.

How reliable is this news?

If we freely living Nigerians are groaning under this CHANGED economy
Shey na bokoharam e no go affect

This is good news if true but my fear is that i just hope this boko boy's are not disguising under the pretense of hunger. Anyway war against Boko Haram must be won with/without force.
God Bless Nigeria
God Bless Us All

9jatriot:
Good one, success from maitasine to boko Haram. Lets apply the same success to the economy and finally shut up all distractors.

Zombie school of thought

we all know that a Nigeria lead by Buhari is stronger than a Nigeria lead by...having said that, we have to always appreciate the efforts of the Nigerian military in this fight.

Liar Muhammed

Feed them with their flesh.

hungry don cAtch them abi..very good...

Dasuki. no pay again?

ShitHead:
Feed them with their flesh.

f for fvck

Na wash

See buhari' brothers.. Bloody vampires

Ehehehehehe!!!!

Up buhari!





Waliers,com and see

This is great news for the NE,can we move on to making Nigeria Great again?

Power of hunger!
Dey should die jare

''Nize wan'' in Buhari's voice.

Let's see pictures of their hungry and frustrated life.

Pictures or...

Pictures nah

How do dey knw say those pipu are boko rams?

Lmao

Rubbish shooot dem in their bleeping hungry belle. Wetin happen to 7 virgins again

Funny nation

Hunger will bring all of them out.

Not today story

Pictures or Ahdonbilivit

Their pictures nko