*The Central and West African States will hold a summit next month to
agree a common strategy to battle the Boko Haram insurgency, their leaders said
on Wednesday.
Armies
from Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger have launched an offensive to end the
Islamic militant group’s six-year campaign, which has killed thousands in
northern Nigeria and spilled over into Cameroon and Niger.
Ghana’s President John Dramani Mahama and his Chadian
counterpart Idriss Deby told reporters in Accra that the April 7-8 summit, for
which the host country has yet to be chosen, was needed to sustain the regional
offensive.
Mahama chairs the West African regional bloc ECOWAS,
while Deby heads the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS).
“Single-handedly, no country can overcome this threat and
therefore through pooling our resources together …we are going to overcome this
challenge,” Deby told reporters.
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