Insurgents Penetrating Nigeria’s North-West, Expanding To South – U.S.
The United States has called on the Nigerian government to take the lead in the fight against insurgency in the country.
He noted that this would also include supplying constant information on the operations of the insurgents in Borno State and the North-West. A photo grab of Major General Dagvin Anderson while he was speaking during a press briefing on August 6, 2020.When it comes to Nigeria in general, Nigeria, obviously, is a critical nation to West Africa. It is huge just in its economy, in its population, and just its influence in the region. It is a critical nation and we realise that Nigeria is a lynchpin.
We have had good engagements with their air force in integrating their air force with their ground forces in order to make their air force more effective. Nigeria is a large country, it’s got a lot of territories to cover, and so it’s critical that they have that air component and that air engagement. So, we have had positive engagements there.
More directly to his point, we have engaged with Nigeria and continue to engage with them in intel sharing and in understanding what these violent extremists are doing, and that has been absolutely critical to their engagements up in the Borno State and into an emerging area of northwest Nigeria that we’re seeing al-Qaida starting to make some inroads in.
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