The United States has formally designated the fundamentalist Islamic militant groups, Boko Haram and Ansaru, as “Foreign Terrorist Organisations under Section 219 of its Immigration and Nationality Act.
It also classified them as Designated Global Terrorists under section 1(b) of Executive Order 13224.
The White House, in a statement on Wednesday, explained that the designation constituted only a tool in a comprehensive approach by the Nigerian government towards curbing the activities of the terror groups.
The statement quoted Lisa Monaco, the adviser on homeland security and counterterrorism to President Barack Obama, as saying that the latest development had demonstrated the support of the White House for the war against the groups in Nigeria.
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