African anti-terror summit in Senegal

Twenty African heads of state are expected attend an anti-terrorism summit in the Senegalese capital Dakar on Wednesday.

A Senegalese Foreign Ministry spokesman said representatives from ten other African nations were also due to attend the meeting, at which an African pact against terrorism is to be discussed.

The Senegalese president, Abdoulaye Wade, says Africans can help fight terrorism by keeping terrorists off their soil and cutting off their finances.

Observers from Western countries, including the United States and France, are also expected at the summit.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service