Leaders from Central and West Africa will hold a summit on Wednesday to fine tune their campaign to annihilate Boko Haram, who appear to be losing ground in the face of a regional military offensive.
The talks will be the first since Nigeria’s presidential, which was won by Muhammadu Buhari, a former military leader who has vowed to rid his country of the “terror” the Islamist militants have sown, AFP reported.
Boko Haram, whose rampage through northeastern Nigeria has left more than 15,000 people dead since 2009, is the region’s most pressing security problem, having sent refugees fleeing across borders and displaced tens of thousands within Nigeria.
The West African regional bloc, ECOWAS, said in a statement yesterday that the meeting in the Equatorial Guinea capital, Malabo, came “in the face of the mounting and increasingly bloody attacks by the fundamentalists against Nigeria, Niger, Cameroun and Chad.”
