Thursday, December 04, 2014

Nigeria Unepextedly Terminates Special Forces Training by US Military

Nigeria has discontinued prematurely a US programme to train one of its army battalions without providing an explanation.

"We regret premature termination of this training, as it was to be the first in a larger planned project that would have trained additional units with the goal of helping the Nigerian Army build capacity to counter Boko Haram," a US State Department spokesman told the Military Times on 1 December.

The unit was not identified, but the US had previously said it was helping the Nigerian Army to establish a Rangers battalion for counter-insurgency operations against the militant group Boko Haram.

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