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Cameroon offers 700 soldiers to Lake Chad regional force

 

Yaounde, Cameroon: Cameroon will send 700 soldiers to its northeastern border as part of a regional force to tackle armed groups in an area where Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram operates, Defence Minister Edgard Alain Mebe Ngo'o said on Thursday.

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