Some of you may have seen this photo and similar ones on several online platforms, claiming its US troops capturing a Boko Haram member,it's false. U.S Pentagon has stated there will be no American troops in Nigeria. The team sent are experts to help with communications, logistics, and intelligence. The pic above going viral is French troops in Central African Republic in 2013.
Secondly, you can see in all the pics floating online, from the uniforms, the African soldiers taking notes from American forces are from Uganda and Somalia. Military aid has been in Africa for sometime under AFRICOM to help train our military.
Now to the second issue; are there foreign troops in Nigeria? There are reports this morning that the Special Forces of the US Marines have sited the abducted Chibok Girls in Sambisa Forest his report is hard to believe because the Pentagon, the UK and France made it clear that they only providing intelligence service (intel & surveillance technology) to work with the Nigerian military..for now!
CNN has it that US intelligence made claims that the girls are not in a single location. Even if US intelligence analysts were able to find the location which they will with the help of satellite and imagery reconnaissance weapons, will they share the info with the media before the girls are rescued? So officially there are no foreign troops in Nigeria for now.
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