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The leader of Boko Haram, the Islamist militant group that has traumatized Nigeria and expanded its attacks in three neighboring countries, has been wounded and replaced, the president of Chad said in a state radio broadcast Wednesday. President Idriss Déby, whose forces have been collaborating with their counterparts in Nigeria, Cameroon and Niger to battle Boko Haram, said its leader, Abubakar Shekau, had ceded control to another militant identified as Mahamoud Daoud. Mr. Idriss did not elaborate on the source of this information, which could not be confirmed independently. But he asserted that Boko Haram’s capabilities had been crushed by the four-country military campaign against the group and that it would be finished as a fighting force by year’s end. The leader of Boko Haram, the Islamist militant group that has traumatized Nigeria and expanded its attacks in three neighboring countries, has been wounded and replaced, the president of Chad said in a state radio broadcast Wednesday. President Idriss Déby, whose forces have been collaborating with their counterparts in Nigeria, Cameroon and Niger to battle Boko Haram, said its leader, Abubakar Shekau, had ceded control to another militant identified as Mahamoud Daoud. Mr. Déby did not elaborate on the source of this information, which could not be confirmed independently. But he asserted that Boko Haram’s capabilities had been crushed by the four-country military campaign against the group and that it would be finished as a fighting force by year’s end.