will be allowed hot pursuit of boko haram fighters across the border into kameroon. i think that is something that still is possibly a long way off being settled. francois olan said they are a surprisingly efficient fighting force. i think the international community has been slow on this. i think most observers would accept that. and, also, i think the african leaders, themselves perhaps, have been reluctant to admit the extent of the problem until now. but as you were describing in your introduction, it is now west africa and central africa where they see the risk spreading. >> tim, do we know whether they have discussed anything about the fate of those kidnapped girls? >> well, they certainly discussed it, but i don't think they had much available to them that they could actually deploy or even talk about exercising. they either negotiate, which they ruled out, or they go for possible military action fraught with difficulty as president olan said, we don't know where they are and if we found out where they were, it's quite possible they are now split up into separ

school in northern nigeria last month and reports say they attacked a chinese plant in northern kameroon today. the latest from tim friend. >>> warm words about cooperation, sharing intelligence, perhaps even cooperating more fully on cross border arrangements so that boko haram could be pursued across boarders, particularly in recent incidents between nigh year i can't and kameroon. but there are still difficulties and many hurdles ahead. i think in the weeks to come, because this issue is going to remain in the international spotlight, they will have to come up with something a lot more concrete than they have already. of course, on the issue of the girls, the school girls being held hostage, there was very little to emerge from this summit because i think their hands are tied. >> that's the leaders, perhaps, have very few options. they ruled out, at least for now, they have ruled out the possibility of negotiation. perhaps the only other possibility is military action that is fraught with difficulty. they still don't know where those young school girls are. perhaps they are now scatte

reports that they broke them up into small groups and perhaps had taken some across the border into kameroon and niger but go"goodlk john that" says it is the fi firegerian air force and the border control room who have heightened up patrols a difficult search and rescue operation. we have seen, of course, the involvement of these international law enforcement experts from the united states and the u.k. >> the 300 girls who were initially kidnapped, nigerian officials say about 50 of them esc aid. now, two of those girls are speaking out. kayla mcgee has their story >> reporter: for these mothers in northern nigeria, desperate to get their daughters back, the grief is raw and matched by raising anger. they came together to press the government to find the more than 270 school girls snatched by boko haram nearly a month ago. and to hear some of the girls who managed to escape revisit a harrowing or deal. >> translator: when they came in, they asked us to gather at one point. then they started asking for the location of the engine block. we told them we did not know. they threatened to kill us