Nigeria's Buhari says army has captured key Boko Haram camp

By Felix Onuah and Alexis Akwagyiram ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's army has captured a key Boko Haram camp, the Islamist militant group's last enclave in the vast Sambisa forest that was its stronghold, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Saturday. Boko Haram has killed 15,000 people and displaced more than two million during a seven-year insurgency to create an Islamic state governed by a strict interpretation of sharia law in the northeast of Africa's most populous nation. The group controlled an area about the size of Belgium in early 2015 but has been pushed out of most of that territory over the last year by Nigeria's army and troops from neighboring countries, shifting to a base in the Sambisa, a former colonial game reserve.

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