The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Richard Mills has been recalled by President Donald Trump.
Mills is among 29 other top career diplomats, 13 of which are in African countries recalled by the Trump administration for what has been touted as the need to push the “America First” policy of the current administration, as reported by the Associated Press, AP
Those affected were informed last week, as the AP reports, that their tenures would end in January.
The American ambassadors to Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Gabon, Côte d’Ivoire, Madagascar, Mauritius, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia and Uganda were also affected in Africa.
All of them had taken up their posts in the Biden administration but had survived an initial purge in the early months of Trump’s second term.
The U.S Embassy is yet to respond to enquiries by AITNEWS, but last week Ambassador Mills paid visits to the Foreign Affairs Minister, Yusuf Tuggar and President of the Senate, Godswil Akpabio.
All of these come just a few days after the Trump administration put Nigeria on a list of Partial Entry Restriction to the U.S
(Editor: Roluke Ogundele)
