28th July, 2015
President Muhammadu Buhari will travel to Cameroon on 29 July for talks with his counterpart President Paul Biya. The duo are expected to talk strategy on how best to end the regional threat posed by Islamist sect Boko Haram.
“President Buhari is going to Cameroon on Wednesday. He will hold talks with President Biya on arrival on Wednesday and the issue of Boko Haram will be central in their discussion,” presidential spokesperson Femi Adesina said.
Biya has since published the itinerary of Buhari during his two-day visit to the country. “At my prompt, the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, will be visiting Cameroon from 29 to 30 July 2015,” he wrote on his official Twitter account.
He then published what he titled: “Programme of the Friendly and Working Visit to Cameroon of H.E. Muhammadu Buhari, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria”.
Programme de la Visite au Cameroun du Président du Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari: http://t.co/49reI7mvoL pic.twitter.com/6d3B0BASAm
— President Paul Biya (@PR_Paul_Biya) July 28, 2015
On Monday, Cameroon Defence Ministry spokesman Colonel Didier Badjeck confirmed that the country was going to increase its troop increase in the Far North.
The central African nation has already deployed some 7,000 troops, alongside soldiers from Chad, Niger and Nigeria, to tackle Boko Haram’s six-year insurgency which has threatened the stability of the Lake Chad region.
Know all about Buhari’s visit to Cameroon. Here is his itinerary.