Governors from four countries of Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon – are meeting for two days to discuss regional cooperation on stabilization, peace building and sustainable development in the Lake Chad regional summit in Maiduguri on Wednesday.
Muhammad Ibn Chambas the special envoy to the UN secretary general for West Africa and the Sahel said, on the sidelines of this summit in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state and birthplace of Boko Haram, what we are seeing is that Boko Haram has become part of an international terrorism network.
On 1 May, at least 86 people were killed in twin suicide attacks targeting a mosque and a nearby market in the town of Mubi in Adamawa state.
This terrorist group has killed at least 20,000 people in nine years of violence that has spilled from northeast Nigeria into Niger, Chad and Cameroon, creating a dire humanitarian crisis.
