Nigeria, Neighbours 'Declare War' On Boko Haram Over Abducted Girls
May 17, 2014

Via AFP:

Nigeria and its neighbours vowed Saturday to join forces against Boko Haram under an accord described as a declaration of war on the Islamic militants holding more than 200 schoolgirls.

Meeting in Paris, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and his counterparts from Benin, Chad, Cameroon and Niger approved an action plan to counter an organisation that has been blamed for 2,000 deaths this year as well as last month's abduction of the schoolgirls from northeastern Nigeria.

Underlining their threat, Boko Haram was suspected of carrying out another attack on the eve of the summit, killin...

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