– I welcome the decision of the AU and the countries of the region to establish a multinational force to fight Boko Haram – UN chief said the African Union Summit, which takes place in the Ethiopian capital , Addis Ababa.
On the night of Thursday to Friday Peace and Security Council (RPiB), consisting of 15 members of the AU, called for the creation of regional military forces, which have been caught by the 7.5 thousand. soldiers. Their task would be fighting the extremists of Boko Haram.
Ready to send military expressed its four neighboring countries Nigeria – Benin, Cameroon, Chad and Niger. The head of the AU Commission Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said that these forces would carry out their mandate and the annual “military operations to prevent the expansion of the activities of Boko Haram and other terrorist organizations and would eliminate their presence.”
writes the BBC, the plan to establish these forces must be approved by the UN Security Council.
Since 2009. Boko Haram leads a guerrilla armed struggle for the transformation of Nigeria, or at least part of its territory in the Muslim religious state in which Sharia law be in force. As a result of the Islamist insurgency in Africa’s most populous country has already killed many thousands of people (in 2014 only. – Approx. 10 thous.).
fighters control large territory, including areas in the states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe. In December, took over a military base in Chad or the lake. Last year, they began to cross the border Nigerian-Cameroon.
Ban Ki-moon supports the plan to create forces to fight Boko Haram – Onet.pl
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