US Conducting Surveillance Flights Over Nigeria After Trump’s Military Intervention Threat- Reuters

The United States has been conducting intelligence-gathering flights over large parts of Nigeria since late November, Reuters reports.

Citing December flight tracking data and current and former US officials, the report said the US contractor-operated aircraft used for the surveillance missions typically takes off from Ghana and flies over Nigeria before returning to Accra, the Ghanaian capital.

It is not immediately clear what information the flights are intended to obtain.