They’re meeting under the auspices of the Economic Community of Central African States. Four other countries have sent delegates.

Of the central African countries at the meeting, only Chad and Cameroon have actually experienced attacks by the extremists…

…who’ve killed more than 13 000 people these past six years – mostly in Nigeria.

The Yaounde meeting’s bent on finding an agreed solution to counter the terror group.

The presidents of Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon are joined by ministers from Angola, Burundi, Sao Tome and Principe and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

At the previous meeting in the Cameroon capital , leaders agreed to deploy a regional force of 8700 troops against Boko Haram.

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