Jonathan Returns From South Africa

President Goodluck Jonathan has returned from South Africa after attending the inauguration of President Jacob Zuma for another term as president.

The South African government had said on Saturday that African leaders in Pretoria for President Jacob Zuma’s inauguration would hold informal talks on the security situation in Nigeria.

Government spokesman, Clayson Monyela, said they would meet to discuss security in Nigeria, where the kidnapping of over 270 schoolgirls had laid bare the government’s inability to tackle an insurgency by the Islamist group Boko Haram.

The talks follow a spate of attacks in Nigeria, which is under growing international pressure to tackle the increasingly bloody uprising.

Some West African leaders had held a meeting in France sponsored by French President Francois Hollande last week to seek collaboration in the fight against terrorism seen as a threat to countries  in West Africa.

President Jonathan was also at the meeting where the leaders concluded that an attack on one is an attack on others. They pledged to work together to end the increasing attacks in Nigeria, Cameroon and Nigeria Republic.