The United States has delivered critical military supplies to Nigeria to bolster the West African nation’s operations, the U.S. military’s Africa Command (AFRICOM) said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The delivery came after the U.S. carried out a\u00a0strike targeting Islamic State\u00a0militants in northwest Nigeria last month.<\/p>\n
AFRICOM said in a post on X that the delivery in the Nigerian capital Abuja “supports Nigeria’s ongoing operations and emphasises our shared security partnership”.<\/p>\n
AFRICOM did not specify what kinds of equipment it had delivered to Nigeria, which has been battling Islamist insurgents in the northeast for the past 15 years as well as criminal kidnapping gangs, mostly in the northwest.<\/p>\n
Last month, AFRICOM said the U.S. military had carried out an airstrike in Sokoto State in coordination with Nigerian authorities and had killed multiple Islamic State militants.<\/p>\n
Nigeria\u2019s foreign ministry said the strike was part of ongoing security cooperation with the U.S., involving intelligence sharing and strategic coordination to target militant groups.<\/p>\n
Reuters reported last month that the U.S. had been conducting\u00a0intelligence-gathering\u00a0flights over large parts of Nigeria since late November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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