Al-Qaeda penetrating North West of Nigeria

The United States government has warned that members of the deadly Al-Qaeda insurgent group have begun to infiltrate the North-Western part of Nigeria.

The commander of the US special operations command in Africa, Dagvin Anderson, revealed this during a press briefing. Anderson said,

“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.

So, this intelligence sharing is absolutely vital and we stay fully engaged with the government of Nigeria to provide them an understanding of what these terrorists are doing, what Boko Haram is doing, what ISIS-West Africa is doing, and how ISIS and al-Qaida are looking to expand further south into the littoral areas.”