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October 3, 2025

Boko Haram Scion Arrested With Five Others In Chad

Chadian security forces have arrested Muslim Mohammed Yusuf, the youngest son of Boko Haram founder, along with five other suspected jihadists in the country’s restive Lake Chad region.

Security sources told AFP that Yusuf, believed to be heading a terror cell, was picked up over the weekend together with his accomplices in a counter-insurgency operation.

Boko Haram, founded in Nigeria by Yusuf’s late father, Mohammed Yusuf, has waged a bloody insurgency across the region for more than 15 years.

“The team was headed by Muslim, the youngest son of the late Boko Haram founder,” an intelligence source in the Lake Chad area told AFP, noting that the suspects are members of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), a breakaway faction of Boko Haram.

Chadian police confirmed the arrest of six terror suspects but did not disclose their identities.

Sources said Muslim Yusuf, believed to be around 18 years old and also known as Abdrahman Mahamat Abdoulaye, bears a striking resemblance to his father. Photographs seen by AFP showed a slight young man in a blue tracksuit standing among the detainees.

He is a younger brother to ISWAP leader, Habib Yusuf, also known as Abu Mus’ab Al-Barnawi.

Nigeria’s counter-terrorism centre and intelligence agency did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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