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| President Muhammadu Buhari |
President Muhammadu
Buhari arrived Cameroon on Wednesday for talks on how to combat the escalating
regional threat from the Boko Haram sect. AFP
reports that security was tight for the 24-hour visit, after a surge of Boko
Haram violence in Cameroon including an unprecedented series of five suicide
bombings in the far north.
Presidential
guard soldiers were posted on rooftops of houses and along the route from the
airport to the presidential palace in Yaounde, while vehicles armed with
machine-guns patrolled the streets and access to the hotel where Buhari will
stay was blocked.
The
trip comes a day after Nigeria vowed that a new regional force tasked with
fighting the insurgents would go into action soon. Nigeria’s government had
said Buhari’s talks with his Cameroonian counterpart Paul Biya were part of his
“ongoing effort to build a more effective regional coalition against Boko
Haram.”
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