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Niger okays 750 troops for Boko Haram fight

By BBC
10 February 2015   |   1:53 pm
NIGER’S parliament has voted to send troops to Nigeria to join the fight against militant Islamist group, Boko Haram. The vote took place after Boko Haram attacked a prison and detonated a car bomb on Monday in the town of Diffa, near Niger's border with Nigeria. MPs said parliament unanimously authorised deploying 750 soldiers with…

NIGER’S parliament has voted to send troops to Nigeria to join the fight against militant Islamist group, Boko Haram.

The vote took place after Boko Haram attacked a prison and detonated a car bomb on Monday in the town of Diffa, near Niger’s border with Nigeria.

MPs said parliament unanimously authorised deploying 750 soldiers with a regional force battling Boko Haram.

The Boko Haram has increasingly drawn in Nigeria’s neighbours.

On Saturday Nigeria, Cameroun, Chad, Niger and Benin agreed to establish a 7,800-strong force to fight the group.

Boko Haram launched its first attacks in Niger last week, and has vowed to create an Islamic state.

Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou, a Muslim, vowed to defeat Boko Haram.

“All the Nigeriens know that these guys are not Muslims. On the contrary, what they are doing is not helping Islam,” he said.

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