27/12/2025
Nigerian villagers are rattled by US airstrikes that made their homes shake and the sky glow red
JABO, Nigeria ? Sanusi Madabo, a 40-year-old farmer in the Nigerian village of Jabo, was preparing for bed on Thursday night when he heard a loud noise that sounded like a plane crashing. He rushed outside his mud house with his wife to see the sky glowing a bright red. The light burned bright for hours, Madabo said: ?It was almost like daytime.? He did not learn until later that he had witnessed a U.S attack on an alleged camp of the militant Islamic State group. U.S. President Donald Trump announced late Thursday that the United States had launched a ?powerful and deadly strike? against IS militants in Nigeria. The Nigerian government has since confirmed that it cooperated with the U.S...
