France, African states 'declare war' with schoolgirl kidnap group Boko Haram

Paris: France and five African states "pronounced war" with Islamist radical faction Boko Haram, after the gathering kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls in northern Nigeria. 

Throughout an against terrorism summit facilitated by French President Francois Hollande in Paris on Saturday, Nigeria's President Good luck Jonathan and agents from Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Benin concurred on a shared activity plan to stop Boko Haram. 

"We are here to pronounce war with Boko Haram," Cameroon's President Paul Biya told writers at the end of the summit, which was likewise went to by the United States and Britain.

Working together: Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan is escorted by French President Francois Hollande as he leaves a Paris summit on the threat from Boko Haram. Photo: AFP

Just a couple of hours before the summit started, about 200 Boko Haram agitators killed two individuals and seized 10 Chinese laborers in the town of Waza, close to Cameroon's outskirt with Nigeria. 

"Boko Haram Islamists assaulted a camp (of street workers)... 10 Chinese can't be found since the strike. We think they have likely been hijacked," a nearby police boss said on state of obscurity on Saturday. 

Boko Haram was "a threat for the entire of West Africa and now likewise Central Africa, with secured connections to AQIM (al-Qaeda in the Magreb) and other terrorist associations," said Mr Hollande.

The campaign to find the more than 200 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram has achieved global momentum. Actress and producer Salma Hayek holds a placard as she poses on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival in France. Photo: Reuters

The members at the summit chose to reinforce the trade of sagacity data in West Africa, coordinate the movements of their armed forces and military missions in Africa, and expansion outskirt controls. 

"These terrorists officially created damage in the sub-area. Permitting them to proceed with will put the whole sub-locale, if not Africa, at danger of turmoil," said Chad's President Idriss Deby. 

Cameroonians in the diaspora took the open door to hand over a letter tended to Mr Hollande, blaming Cameroon's President for "neglecting to secure the nation's fringes consequently leaving Cameroonians exposed and helpless before the Islamic group". 

Mr Hollande had called the summit after Boko Haram stole more than 200 young ladies from a school in the northern Nigerian town of Chibok on April 14. On Monday, the gathering discharged a feature of something like 130 of the for the most part Christian young ladies, wearing cover and recounting the Koran. 

Nigeria's President Jonathan, who has been censured for his moderate reaction to the snatching, guaranteed his administration was "completely captivated" in the quest for the youngsters. 

The seizing brought on an universal objection, with the US, Britain, Israel, China, France and Canada vowing backing in the quest for the young ladies. 

The US government has sent help as military authorities, agents and criminology specialists. 

France sent in a gathering of knowledge masters to aid in the inquiry, in the wake of publishing a week ago it might assemble a cross-outskirt hostile to terrorism unit with 3000 French fighters in the Sahel zone. 

Nigerian police offered a prize of 50 million naira ($us310,000) to anybody giving a lead on the whereabouts of the stole kids. 

Boko Haram, which signifies "Western instruction is evil," has done lethal ambushes on state organizations and regular people in the transcendently Muslim north of the West African nation for a few years.