YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Presidents from the 10-nation Economic Community of Central African States (CEEAC) pledged in an extraordinary meeting on Monday to create an $87 million (56.7 million pounds) emergency fund to fight the Islamist militant group Boko Haram.
"My counterparts from the CEEAC and I decided to create an emergency fund of 50 billion CFA francs (56.52 million pounds) to fight Boko Haram," Gabon's President Ali Bongo, who attended the one-day summit in Cameroon, said on his personal Twitter account.
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