{"id":84731,"date":"2026-02-11T07:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84731"},"modified":"2026-02-11T07:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T07:09:07","slug":"us-to-send-200-troops-to-nigeria-to-train-african-nations-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/11\/us-to-send-200-troops-to-nigeria-to-train-african-nations-military\/","title":{"rendered":"US to send 200 troops to Nigeria to train African nation&#8217;s military"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1W5y57.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"A U.S. Army soldier (L) trains Nigerian Army soldiers at a military compound in Jaji, Nigeria, February 14, 2018.  Capt. James Sheehan\/U.S. Army\/Handout via REUTERS\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The United States is planning to send about 200 troops to Nigeria to train the African nation&#8217;s military to fight Islamist militants, a U.S. official said on Tuesday,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/us-to-send-200-troops-to-nigeria-to-train-african-nation-s-military\/ar-AA1W5y5f?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=ace77648c6b74dbeecec5bdabf4f04ec&amp;ei=61\">\u00a0 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The United States is planning to send about 200 troops to Nigeria to train the African nation&#8217;s military to fight Islamist militants,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Nigerian-Army.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84732,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84731\/revisions\/84732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}