West Africa, Central Africa and North Africa are all at risk if the threat of the radical sect, Boko Haram is not contained.
This is according to President Goodluck Jonathan who in a CNN interview on Wednesday stated that the sect has linked up with some of Al Qaeda terrorists in northern Mali and other North African countries.
The President had earlier stated in his presentation at the World Economic Forum holding in Davos, Switzerland that terrorism in the African continent is being fuelled by the attractive rewards it offers terrorists, from hostage-taking to drug trafficking and instigating crises in different countries.
He added that Africa needs the cooperation and support of the international community to deal with the problem on the continent.
President Jonathan also pointed out that the deployment of Nigerian troops to troubled Mali is to prevent it from spilling over into other West African countries.
In the interview with CNN, President Jonathan admitted that initially Boko Haram caught Nigeria off guard but that the country is now making progress to contain the sect.
The President also denied suggestions from the US State Department that the officers of the Nigerian military and the Joint Task Force, battling the sect members have carried out indiscriminate killing in their counter insurgency.
He warned that unless the crisis is properly handled, Africa risks being overrun by terrorists who have the potential of destabilizing investments on the continent.
At the end of his interview on CNN, the President promised that power supply will improve reasonably by the end of 2013.
