Nigeria: Regional Approach Needed to Tackle Boko Haram - UN Chief

18 March 2014

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, NaviPillay, has said that Nigeria requires a concerted regional approach to tackle the terrorist activities of Boko Haram.

Pillay said this while addressing the media last Friday during her mission to Nigeria. Nigeria is still struggling to mobilise her neighbours namely Cameroun, Chad and Nigeria Republic in battling the terrorists. Boko Haram terrorists are known to have bases in Cameroun and Chad but both countries have done little to help Nigeria stop these terrorists from using their borders.

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