Rifts Between U.S. and Nigeria Impeding Fight Against Boko Haram

© Ali Kaya/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Soldiers from the Chadian Army at the border between Nigeria and Cameroon, part of a regional force that has been fighting Boko Haram militants.

WASHINGTON — Relations between American military trainers and specialists advising the Nigerian military in the fight against Boko Haram are so strained that the Pentagon often bypasses the Nigerians altogether, choosing to work instead with security officials in the neighboring countries of Chad, Cameroon and Niger, according to defense officials and diplomats.

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