Central African countries to join fight against Boko Haram

Abuja – Central African countries are to join their west African counterparts to “collectively utilize all political, military and diplomatic to eradicate Boko Haram.”

President Denis Sassou N’Guesso of the Republic of Congo who addressed state House Correspondents at the end of a meeting
with President Goodluck Jonathan and President Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea in Abuja said the threat posed by Boko Haram was to the entire African continent.

According to him, the meeting with President Jonathan was to discuss the threat posed by Boko Haram and the Ebola Virus to African continent.

“We are here because we have been mandated by the Heads of State of the Central African Community to show our solidarity to the people of Nigeria and the government of Nigeria, and to our brother and friend, President Jonathan.

“And after here, we are on a mission to Accra to meet with President John Mahama of Ghana, who is the Chairman of
ECOWAS. We will study the situation together and put in place a security architecture to see how we can coordinate all our actions to put out and eradicate  Boko Haram, which has been spreading in a very grave manner. We look forward to peace, security and development
in Africa” he said.

The president noted that “Africa is confronting two challenges. Significantly, ebola is affecting basically countries in West Africa. These countries are: Liberia, Guinea and Serra Leone. Also, the operations of the terrorists generally affecting countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa and in northern Africa, particularly Boko Haram which has been affecting Nigeria, Chad and Cameroun.

“Like you know at the last meeting of the Africa Union, the Heads of State took some very important decisions principally to
check the Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria, Niger, Cameroun and Chad.