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Guinea’s president warned that Islamic extremism risked spreading throughout west Africa and called on countries in the region to do more to help Nigeria in its struggle against Boko Haram.

Alpha Conde’s comments came after the radical group kidnapped 185 people in northeast Nigeria on December 14, in a chillingly similar event to the April abduction in Chibok of more than 200 school girls.

“If there is a problem in one country, if we don’t put out the fire it will spread to the other countries,” Conde told TV5 Monde television in a Sunday interview.

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