ACCRA (Reuters) - West African leaders are considering creating a military force to fight Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist militants and will hold a regional summit next week to discuss the issue, Ghana's President John Mahama said on Friday.
Regional bloc ECOWAS will seek the support of the African Union (AU) for its plans, said Mahama.
"Nigeria is taking military action and Cameroon is fighting Boko Haram, but I think we are increasingly getting to the point where probably a regional or a multinational force is coming into consideration," Mahama, who currently chairs ECOWAS, told a news conference.
"It is what we want to discuss at the AU because, if that must happen, there must be a mandate to allow such a force to operate," he said.
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