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US Military Team Deployed to Nigeria After Recent Attacks
The U.S. team aims to enhance Nigeria's fight against armed groups including Boko Haram after 168 churchgoers were abducted last month, increasing bilateral military cooperation.
- On Tuesday, U.S. Africa Command announced it dispatched a small team of U.S. military officers to Nigeria, General Dagvin R.M. Anderson said.
- Long-Running fighting with armed groups has prompted increased U.S.-Nigeria cooperation after a meeting in Rome late last year, Anderson said.
- The U.S. has supplied Nigeria with military equipment and conducted reconnaissance missions to support counterinsurgency efforts.
- Diplomatic tensions have included threats by President Donald Trump and the U.S. designating Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern, which the Nigerian government firmly rejected.
- It is unclear when the team arrived in Nigeria, and the terms of the U.S.-Nigeria cooperation remain unclear, despite last month’s attack in Kaduna state.
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The US has sent a small team of troops to Nigeria, the general in charge of the US command for Africa said on Tuesday, the first acknowledgment of US forces on the ground since Washington struck by air on Christmas Day. President Donald Trump ordered airstrikes on what he described as Islamic State targets in Nigeria in December and said there could be more US military action there. Reuters earlier reported that the US had been conducting survei…
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