US Agrees to Train Nigerian Troops for Anti-Terror War

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US Agrees to Train Nigerian Troops for Anti-Terror War

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Several months after a U.S. army-led combat training for Nigerian soldiers was aborted, Washington has announced a resumption of the programme. The US Assistant Secretary of State (Africa Affairs), Ms Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said that the training would resume this month. Speaking further on U.S. anti-Boko Haram strategy at a meeting in Washington DC, Ms. Thomas-Greenfield said U.S. experts would “inaugurate the first round of training for an infantry battalion later this month.” The resumed training program is part of a broad U.S. strategy against the terror group and, part of the new deal the Obama administration entered with President Muhammadu Buhari during his official trip to America last July. “Our counter Boko Haram Strategy is an integrated, inter-agency effort to help Nigeria and its neighbours in their fight to degrade and ultimately to defeat Boko Haram”, said Ms. Thomas-Greenfield adding that the Obama administration engaged Mr. Buhari’s military leadership “to draw up a range of new and continued security assistance”. “We have stepped up information-sharing efforts, we are jointly evaluating new efforts to counter improvised explosive devices, developing better tools to assess harm to civilians, and assess the potential for U.S. advisory assistance”, the Assistant Secretary of State said.

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