Summit to consider Boko Haram threat

Leaders from five African nations are in Paris for a summit with officials from the US, France and Britain in the hope of co-ordinating a strategy against Boko Haram, the extremist group that abducted more than 200 Nigerian girls.

France, which has negotiated the freedom of a priest and a French family who had been abducted by Boko Haram, called the summit to share intelligence and work to find the kidnapped girls.