{{Experts from the US and UK have arrived in Nigeria to help find some 200 girls abducted by Boko Haram Islamist militants.
The experts include military advisers, negotiators and counsellors.
On Thursday, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said he hoped the foreign assistance would signal “the beginning of the end of terror” in Nigeria.
Nigeria has been criticised for its slow response to the kidnappings.
The schoolgirls were seized from their boarding school on the night of 14 April in the town of Chibok in north-eastern Borno state.}}
It is believed they are being held somewhere in the vast forested areas that stretch from near Chibok into neighbouring Cameroon.
More protests have been held in the British capital, London, and Nigeria’s main city, Lagos, on Friday.
A Foreign Office statement said the British experts would be working closely with their US counterparts.
“The team will be considering not just the recent incidents but also longer-term counter-terrorism solutions to prevent such attacks in the future and defeat Boko Haram,” it said.
Earlier, US Secretary of State John Kerry said: “Our inter-agency team is hitting the ground in Nigeria now and they are going to be working in concert with President Goodluck Jonathan’s government to do everything that we possibly can to return these girls to their families and their communities.”
{wirestory}
Leave a Reply