' Boko Haram can no longer attack towns '

When he came to power earlier this year, President Muhammadu Buhari promised to wipe out by the end of 2015 the Islamist group Boko Haram which is accused of numerous human rights abuses. It now looks like the deadline will not be met. So the BBC correspondent Abdullahi Kaura Abubakar met President Buhari and started by asking him if he had failed in the fight against the insurgents in northeastern Nigeria.

( Photo: Nigerian troops celebrate after taking over the northeastern town of Bama from Boko Haram on March 25, 2015. Photo: Nichole Sobecki/AFP/Getty Images)