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DANGER ALERT! 'Al-Qaeda Penetrating North-West' — United States Notifies Nigeria
Aug 6, 2020
The United States has sounded the alarm that Al-Qaeda, a dreaded insurgent group, has started penetrating the north-western part of Nigeria.
Nigeria, in recent times, has seen a tremendous increase in attacks across Kaduna, Katsina, Sokoto, Zamfara and other north-west states.
Speaking during a virtual media briefing with journalists on Tuesday, Dagvin Anderson, commander of the US special operations command, Africa, said Al-Qaeda is also expanding to other parts of West Africa but added the US will continue to partner with Nigeria in sharing intelligence.
“We have engaged with Nigeria and continue to engage with them in intel sharing and in understanding what these violent extremists are doing,” he said.
“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.”
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