Why bomb Sokoto? Trump’s strikes baffle Nigerians

Financial Times: The US military said in its initial assessment that “multiple” Isis members had been killed in the strikes on extremist “camps”. Trump claimed the camps “got decimated” in an interview with Politico.

However, residents of Jabo professed surprise at the strikes, saying the projectiles had landed in empty fields, causing no casualties, and that Jabo had been relatively shielded from violence. The last attack by militants had occurred two years ago, they said. Video footage on Nigerian television showed pieces of burnt metal in what looked like farmland…

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