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Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - US President Donald Trump talks with guests during a Halloween party at his Mar-a-Lago estate on October 31, 2025 at Palm Beach, Florida. Trump is spending the weekend at his Mar-A-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. — AFP pic
WEST PALM BEACH (United States), Nov 2 — President Donald Trump yesterday threatened to send US forces into Nigeria with “guns-a-blazing” if Africa’s most populous country does not stem what he described as the killing of Christians by Islamists.
In an explosive post on his Truth Social platform, the Republican leader — who had campaigned unsuccessfully for the Nobel Peace Prize — said he asked the Pentagon to map out a possible plan of attack, a day after warning that Christianity was “facing an existential threat in Nigeria.”
“If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the US will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” he said.
“I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our cherished Christians,” he added, warning the Nigerian government that they “better move fast!”
Nigeria is embroiled in numerous conflicts that experts say have killed both Christians and Muslims without distinction.
Trump on Friday posted, without evidence, that “thousands of Christians are being killed and radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter.”
Conservative politicians have fuelled the accusations.
In March, US congressman Chris Smith called for Nigeria to be listed by the State Department as a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) — a move announced by Trump on Friday over what he called an “existential threat” to the African nation’s Christian population.
In early October, US Senator Ted Cruz and House Republican Riley Moore accused the Nigerian government of turning a blind eye to the “mass murder” of Christians.
Claims of Christian persecution have also been pushed by some in Nigeria, where ethnic, religious, and regional divisions have flared with deadly consequences in the past and still shape the country’s modern politics.
Some US officials argue Christians in Nigeria are facing a “genocide” — a claim that Abuja denies.
“The characterisation of Nigeria as religiously intolerant does not reflect our national reality,” Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu posted yesterday on X after Trump made his CPC announcement.
“Religious freedom and tolerance have been a core tenet of our collective identity and shall always remain so,” Tinubu added.
Nigeria is almost evenly divided between a Muslim-majority north and a largely Christian south.
The country is consumed by security issues, with its northeastern region at the epicentre of a Boko Haram jihadist insurgency that has killed more than 40,000 people and displaced more than two million since 2009, according to the United Nations.
In central Nigeria, majority-Muslim herders have repeatedly clashed with majority-Christian farmers. The conflict is frequently portrayed as inter-religious but generally stems from competition over land access. — AFP
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