The United States has withdrawn most of the military personnel it deployed to Nigeria’s Lake Chad Basin for a joint counterterrorism mission, while maintaining intelligence sharing and other security cooperation with the Nigerian government.
The Commander of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe–Air Forces Africa, Dagvin R. M. Anderson, disclosed the development during a virtual press briefing on the outcome of the African Chiefs of Defence Conference 2026.
Anderson said the operation in the Lake Chad Basin had achieved its objective and that most of the U.S. forces assigned to the mission had since left Nigeria. He, however, stressed that.See the video & full news here. Thank you and God bless.


