In an unusual and expected move, President Donald Trump has declared Nigeria as a country of interest. There was no particular event that acted as a catalyst to this announcement other than a letter by Republican Congressman Riley Moore who claimed that 7,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria this year alone by Islamic terrorists. Actual statistics by Christian advocacy groups count up to 4,476 Christian killed in 2024 and up to 7,679 Churches and Christian properties attacked or destroyed.
You can read the letter by the Republican Congressman here.
It is a fact that Christians in Nigeria have been systematically persecuted in the recent decades and massacres also took place in the recent years, but there are no reports of recent massacres in Nigeria that could have prompted President Trump’s decision. The latest event that was reported in the press was in October 2nd and four Christians were reportedly killed.
The US government has distanced itself from the ongoing war in Sudan after peace talks between the RSF and the Sudanese government in Washington led to no result. The RSF leader, Hemedti, said that the talks were useless.
The United Arab Emirates is currently conducting a very extensive propaganda campaign to deflect attention from its role in the ongoing ethnic cleansing in Al-Fashir by the RSF. The RSF were capable in besieging and conquering Al-Fashir thanks to military aid and support provided to them by the UAE. The UAE also provided to the RSF multiple drones which were used relentlessly against the city of Al-Fashir prior to its fall.
The United States has been very tolerant of the UAE’s imperialist policy on Sudan as the UAE arms and supports the genocidal RSF. Earlier this year, the United States accused the Sudanese Armed Forces of using chemical weapons as soon as the US signed a weapons deal with the UAE. The US provided no evidence for these accusations. The war in Sudan is being well documented.
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