Nigeria receives US planes for Boko Haram fight
23 July 2021 |
5:19 pm
The US-made aircraft were formally sold under the Trump administration in 2017. Nigeria wants the 12 attack planes to battle an Islamist insurgency; militants downed one of its jets this week.
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