The leader of Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram has issued a new video in which he denied claims of a deal to free the 200 girls kidnapped in April from a school in the northern town of Chibok.
Abubakar Shekau, the mercurial leader of the Islamist group, smirked as he said that the girls would never be released because they had been "married off" to fighters.
"The issue of the girls is long forgotten because I have long ago married them off," he said, laughing. "In this war, there is no going back."
Speaking in Hausa, the local dialect, Shekau denied claims made last month by Nigeria's military and presidency that they had reached a deal to end five years of deadly violence in the country's northeast, as well as agreement to release the Chibok girls.
And he mocked the government for claiming that they were negotiating with an envoy from Boko Haram named Danladi Ahmadu.
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