The Ambassador, who came to the Presidential Villa with the US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr James Entwistle, said the meeting among other issues centered on what the United Nations and the U.S. are doing as a follow up to the promise to assist Nigeria in the fight against Boko Haram.
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Having killed over 10,000 people mostly in northeastern Nigeria, Boko Haram has spread its activities to neighbouring Cameroon, Chad and Niger.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, second from right, stands next to Bring Back Our Girls co-founder Obiageli Ezekwesili, center and Aisha Yesufu, left, as she attends a Bring Back Our Girls vigil in Abuja, Nigeria, Thursday, April 21, 2016, which, two years after Boko Haram abducted the girls from their school, is still held daily.
But in a rare appearance before foreign journalists at his presidential palace, Chadian President Idriss Deby indicated he wouldn’t help in the US -backed effort to install a unity government in Libya, his country’s northern neighbor, a former foe and an incubator for Muslim extremist groups.
It stated that Power had earlier visited Cameroon and Chad between April 16 and 20 to underscore the rising danger the insurgence poses to the Lake Chad Basin region.
The Boko Haram-IS nexus may pose the greatest immediate threat.
In terms of the rest of the trip today, which of course was very clouded by what had happened on the journey to visit with IDPs and with refugees, we met with families who described for us the human consequences of Boko Haram’s terror.
Samantha Power, had said that the Special Operations forces sent by President Obama were doing “surveillance, intelligence and reconnaissance” and would continue their efforts to locate the Chibok girls.
USA officials warned of deepening links between the Islamic State and Boko Haram and prodded Chad’s ruling strongman to introduce reforms for the sake of long-term stability. Of course, military force has to be part of it; they have guns, they have suicide vests, they have armored vehicles – they have those things, and we will fight them.
Nigerian military has warned that the Islamic terror group, Boko Haram is luring young people by giving them loans as a bait for membership.
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The US contribution will also allow our partners to extend and expand the reach of emergency food assistance in North Eastern Nigeria.
