Trump Orders Military to Prepare for Action in Nigeria to tackle Islamist
BBC- US President Donald Trump has ordered the military to prepare for action in Nigeria to tackle Islamist militant groups, accusing the government of failing to protect Christians.
Trump did not say which killings he was referring to, but claims of a genocide against Nigeria’s Christians have been circulating in recent weeks and months in some right-wing US circles.
Groups monitoring violence say there is no evidence to suggest that Christians are being killed more than Muslims in Nigeria, which is roughly evenly divided between followers of the two religions.
An advisor to Nigeria’s president said both leaders had a shared interest in fighting “all forms of terrorism against humanity”.
Daniel Bwala said any differences about whether only Christians were being targeted “or in fact all faiths and no faiths” would be addressed when Trump meets his Nigerian counterpart, Bola Tinubu, in the coming days.
Tinubu has insisted there is religious tolerance in the country and said the security challenges were affecting people “across faiths and regions”.
