{"id":21548,"date":"2026-01-13T21:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/21548\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T21:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:13:09","slug":"us-sends-military-supplies-to-nigeria-to-bolster-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/21548\/","title":{"rendered":"US sends military supplies to Nigeria to bolster security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoSubtitle\">The US has delivered \u201ccritical\u201d military supplies to Nigerian forces in a move aimed at strengthening bilateral defense cooperation, the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoSubtitle\">The delivery to Washington\u2019s \u201cNigerian partners\u201d in the capital Abuja \u201csupports Nigeria\u2019s ongoing operations and emphasises our shared security partnership,\u201d AFRICOM said on X social network.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"left\" class=\"MsoSubtitle\">Nigeria\u2019s security crisis has recently drawn <a target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trtafrika.com\/english\/article\/19d329703064\">international attention<\/a> and tension, as the US alleged that violence in the country amounts to persecution of Christian communities, with some officials and commentators labelling parts of the conflict as a form of religiously-targeted violence and warning of action if the situation does not improve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US has delivered \u201ccritical\u201d military supplies to Nigerian forces in a move aimed at strengthening bilateral defense&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[122],"class_list":{"0":"post-21548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria","8":"tag-nigeria"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}