Cameroon, Chad and Niger have
launched a regional bid to combat the Boko
Haram, as their attacks spread beyond Nigeria
and concern mounts over the country's failure to
regain control.
The three neighbours have opted for a joint
military response to the cross-border threat from
Boko Haram fighters and have made veiled
criticisms of Nigeria, whose armed forces appear
no match for the group that emerged in 2009.
Brutal raids, massacres, suicide bomb attacks
and kidnappings by Boko Haram have claimed at
least 13 000 lives and driven an estimated 1.5
million people from their homes, mainly in arid
northeast Nigeria.
Officially, all four states, whose borders converge
in remote territory at Lake Chad, formed a
military alliance that was due to take shape last
November to battle Boko Haram.
launched a regional bid to combat the Boko
Haram, as their attacks spread beyond Nigeria
and concern mounts over the country's failure to
regain control.
The three neighbours have opted for a joint
military response to the cross-border threat from
Boko Haram fighters and have made veiled
criticisms of Nigeria, whose armed forces appear
no match for the group that emerged in 2009.
Brutal raids, massacres, suicide bomb attacks
and kidnappings by Boko Haram have claimed at
least 13 000 lives and driven an estimated 1.5
million people from their homes, mainly in arid
northeast Nigeria.
Officially, all four states, whose borders converge
in remote territory at Lake Chad, formed a
military alliance that was due to take shape last
November to battle Boko Haram.
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