Nigeria, Aug. 6 -- Islamist terrorist organisations such as Al-Qaida have begun to march towards the north-western part of Nigeria, a top military general in the U.S army has said.

Dagvin Anderson, commander of U.S Special Operations Command in Africa, said during a digital press briefing Tuesday that the American government is engaging with Nigeria on intelligence sharing and understanding of what the terrorists are doing.

"And that has been absolutely critical to their engagements up in the Borno State and into an emerging area of northwest Nigeria that we're seeing al-Qaida starting to make some inroads in," said Mr Anderson.

"So this intelligence sharing is absolutely vital and we stay fully engaged with the Government of Nigeria t...