African leaders hold summit on Boko Haram on April 8

Leaders of central and west African states on sunday said it will hold a summit on April 8 to draw up strategy against the threat posed by Boko Haram militants, a.
A regional coalition involving troops from Nigeria,

Chad, Niger and Cameroon has been waging war against the Islamists in a bid to crush the insurgency, which has now spread across borders from their stronghold in northeast Nigeria.

The meeting in Malabo, capital of Equatorial Guinea, is being jointly organised by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS).