A joint summit of Heads of State of Economic Community of West African States and the Economic Community of Central African States will hold in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, on Wednesday for adoption of a strategy against the terrorist group, Boko Haram.
The ECOWAS in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, stated that the meeting is against the backdrop of mounting and increasingly bloody attacks by the fundamentalists against Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Chad “with their serious consequences for these countries, and the real risk of destabilisation that they induce in West and Central Africa.”
The commission explained that experts from both organisations had held a preliminary meeting in Douala, Cameroon on April 2, 2015, to prepare ground for the summit.
It noted that the experts identified the particular objective of the strategy, which aims to eradicate Boko Haram.
The regional body said, “The experts submitted coordination mechanism between the incumbent presidents and between the executives of the two regional economic commissions, and also how to articulate the strategy at the operational level.”
The Doula meeting, the Commission said, was attended by Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal from ECOWAS, while for ECCAS, in addition to Cameroon, the host country, the participants came from Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo, DR Congo, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe and Chad.
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