Pledges allegiance to ISIS
Boko Haram pledges allegiance to ISIS. In an audio message posted online, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau:
We announce our allegiance to the Caliph of the Muslims … and will hear and obey in times of difficulty and prosperity, in hardship and ease, and to endure being discriminated against, and not to dispute about rule with those in power, except in case of evident infidelity regarding that which there is a proof from Allah