Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will travel to neighbouring Cameroon on Wednesday for talks with that country’s President Paul Biya on combatting the regional threat from Boko Haram, Nigerian officials said.

“President Buhari is going to Cameroon on Wednesday. He will hold talks with President Biya on arrival on Wednesday and the issue of Boko Haram will be central in their discussion,” presidential spokesman Femi Adesina said.

Since his inauguration on May 29, Buhari has already visited Chad and Niger, two other neighbours of Nigeria that, like Cameroon, have been targeted in cross-border attacks by the Nigeria-based jihadists.

The visit to Cameroon “aims to build a strong regional alliance to confront Boko Haram,” another spokesman for Buhari, Garba Shehu, said.

Shehu declined to give details on the deployment of regional troops, but insisted it “will still be at the end of this month.”

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