Abubakar Shekau, terror mastermind of Africa’s longest running Islamic State affiliate known as Boko Haram, is dead, The Epoch Times has learned. Although Nigerian military have not issued a statement, Shekau’s death by suicide blast late Wednesday evening was reported to The Epoch Times Thursday by David Otto, a defense consultant with sources in the Nigerian military. Shekau’s death was confirmed by the Wall Street Journal Friday, citing conflict mediators, unnamed Nigerian officials and intelligence shared by a West African spy agency. “He died along with three of his henchmen after losing a battle with rival group Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP),” wrote Otto in a text to The Epoch Times from the neighboring nation of Cameroon. “He refused to surrender—several of his commanders had surrendered or were killed by the same group that split from his faction in 2016,” Otto said in a call. The fundamentalist terrorist …