FILE - A police officer and a soldier from Benin stop a motorcyclist at a checkpoint outside Porga, Benin, March 26, 2022. Jihadi fighters who had long operated in Africa’s volatile Sahel region have settled in northwestern Nigeria after crossing from neighboring Benin, a new report said Wednesday, June 19, 2024, the latest trend in the militants' movements to wealthier West African coastal nations. (AP Photo/ Marco Simoncelli, File)