Multinational Joint Task Force

Benin will deploy 150 troops next month to assist a regional task force battling Islamist militant group Boko Haram, a statement from the task force said today.

Nigeria on Thursday named a general to lead a new multinational task force created to fight Boko Haram jihadists in the face of a surge of devastating attacks.

Three militia fighters and 11 Boko Haram militants have been killed in a clash in a village in northeastern Nigeria, a local resident and a member of the militia fighting alongside the army said on Tuesday.

At least 25 people were killed by suspected Boko Haram Islamist militants in raids on Monday afternoon and on Tuesday morning on three communities in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state, military and police sources said.

Cameroon will send about 2,000 military reinforcements to the north to fight Boko Haram, the Nigerian jihadist movement behind bloody cross-border raids and suicide bombings, state television said today.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today gave his backing to an African Union proposal to set up a regional five-nation force of 7,500 troops to fight Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist militants.

Benin will deploy 150 troops next month to assist a regional task force battling Islamist militant group Boko Haram, a statement from the task force said today.

Nigeria on Thursday named a general to lead a new multinational task force created to fight Boko Haram jihadists in the face of a surge of devastating attacks.

Three militia fighters and 11 Boko Haram militants have been killed in a clash in a village in northeastern Nigeria, a local resident and a member of the militia fighting alongside the army said on Tuesday.

At least 25 people were killed by suspected Boko Haram Islamist militants in raids on Monday afternoon and on Tuesday morning on three communities in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state, military and police sources said.

Cameroon will send about 2,000 military reinforcements to the north to fight Boko Haram, the Nigerian jihadist movement behind bloody cross-border raids and suicide bombings, state television said today.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today gave his backing to an African Union proposal to set up a regional five-nation force of 7,500 troops to fight Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist militants.