African leaders have agreed to send 7 500 troops to fight
the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria, an African Union official said
Saturday.
The move came after the council urged heads
of state to endorse the deployment of troops from five West African countries
to fight the terror group, said the head of the African Union's Peace and
Security Council, Samil Chergui.
African leaders who are members of the
54-nation African Union are meeting in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa for a
two-day summit that ends Saturday.




