Cameroon sends 700 troops to Lake Chad force

Yaounde – Cameroon will send 700 soldiers to its northeastern border as part of a regional force to tackle armed groups in an area where Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram operates, Defence Minister Edgard Alain Mebe Ngo’o said on Thursday. At a two-day meeting in Cameroon’s capital Yaounde, defence ministers from the six-nation Lake…