[Breitbart] U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) said on Tuesday that a small number of American military officers have been deployed to Nigeria to assist with counter-terrorism efforts.
Gen. Dagvin R.M. Anderson, the commander of AFRICOM, said during a press briefing hosted by the State Department on Tuesday that the deployment was made after he met with Nigerian President Bola Tinubu at a summit in Rome in October.
The summit was part of the Aqaba Process, a counter-terrorism initiative launched by King Abdullah II of Jordan in 2015. The 2025 meeting in Rome was focused on terrorist threats in West Africa.
"At that meeting, I was able to meet President Tinubu. We were able to share some thoughts and agree that we needed to work together on a way forward in the region," Gen. Anderson said on Tuesday.
"That has led to increased collaboration between our nations, to include a small U.S. team that brings some unique capabilities from the United States in order to augment what Nigeria has been doing for several years," he said.
Anderson did not say exactly how large the U.S. team was, what missions it has undertaken, or when it arrived in Nigeria. He was pleased with the outcome, saying, "We’ve had some really good, positive movement there." |