'Nigeria military response to Boko haram not working...They should let us help more' - US Commander

General David Rodriguez, head of US Africa Command, said the Islamists’ gains on the battlefield are cause for concern and “the number of people displaced is just staggering.” Speaking at an event organized by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.

“I think it’s going to take a huge international and multinational effort there to change a trajectory that continues to go in the wrong direction,the Nigerian leadership and Nigerian military are going to have to really improve their capacities to be able to handle that.”

Rodriguez said the Nigerian military’s response “was not working very effectively and actually
in some places made it worse.”: “I hope that they let us help more and more.”