He said the US troops would also help to train Cameroonian forces to enhance border security and improve intelligence collection.
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“The combined activities conducted at this location are created to better enhance the capability and capacity of our partners in the Cameroon defense forces to promote stability and security within Cameroon and the surrounding region”, Baldanza said.
General Rodriguez told President Buhari that he was in the country to strengthen Nigeria/United States military relations, and also explore further options for assisting the Multinational Joint Task Force established by Nigeria and her neighbours, to fight Boko Haram.
President Barack Obama notified Congress on Monday that he would be deploying 300 United States troops and surveillance drones to counter the militant group Boko Haram. A total of up to about 300 troops ultimately could be sent. A day earlier, U.S. Ambassador to Cameroon Michael Hoza met in Cameroon with the country’s foreign minister, Lejeune Mbella Mbella.
It has been waging a vicious insurgency for several years that originated in Nigeria but has since spread into neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger and left an estimated 20,000 people dead. The militant Islamic group seeks to establish an Islamic state in Nigeria and has ruthlessly targeted civilians.
The UNHCR Spokesperson said that “these people are living in desperate conditions, they lack livelihoods, they lack shelter, they lack food, they lack health care”.
The White House stated that the move was not in response to any changed assessment of threat in the region.
Besides “killing thousands ” öhttp://www.euronews.com/2015/07/07/nigeria-25-killed-in-suspected-boko-haram-suicide-blast/ of people, one of the group’s most notorious acts which attracted global condemnation was the 2014 abduction of at least 200 girls from a school in north-east Nigeria.
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The possibility that Boko Haram possesses cluster munitions indicates they may be better equipped than the Nigerian military has suggested in previous notices.
