(2.Dezember 2014) Just weeks after the Nigerian ambassador to Washington blasted the U.S. military for not offering enough assistance to weaken Boko Haram, the Nigerian government canceled an American-run training program for a Nigerian battalion charged with battling the terrorist organization behind the infamous kidnappings of more than 200 Nigerian high school girls earlier this year.

The American embassy in Abuja announced the program’s elimination late Monday, saying that it came “at the request of the Nigerian government.”