My email and Facebook inboxes have been inundated with questions about what the Nigerian military truly meant when it said it had"fatally wounded" Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau. Did the military mean it killed him? Or did it mean it severely injured him? And when the military "declared" people "wanted" who were not on the run, what precisely did it mean?
Instead of replying individually to tens of private messages and to social media tags, I've decided to devote this week's column to these questions. So here you go:
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