U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) said on Tuesday that a small number of American military officers have been deployed to Nigeria to assist with counter-terrorism efforts.
Gen. Dagvin R.M. Anderson, the commander of AFRICOM, said during a press briefing hosted by the State Department on Tuesday that the deployment was made after he met with Nigerian President Bola Tinubu at a summit in Rome in October.
The summit was part of the Aqaba Process, a counter-terrorism initiative launched by King Abdullah II of Jordan in 2015. The 2025 meeting in Rome was focused on terrorist threats in West Africa.
“At that meeting, I was able to meet President Tinubu…
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