Nigeria said Sunday the country would welcome American intervention against Islamic extremist groups behind the massacre and persecution of Christians in the African nation.
Daniel Bwala, advisor to Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, told Reuters Sunday the country would welcome U.S. intervention to combat Islamic terrorists persecuting and massacring Christians within its borders, as long as Nigeria’s sovereignty was respected. President Donald Trump threatened Saturday on Truth Social to deploy U.S. forces in Nigeria if the nation did not do enough to stop Islamic terrorist organizations like Boko Haram.
“We welcome U.S. assistance as long as it recognizes our territorial integrity,” the advisor told Reuters.
Trump also threatened in his post to cut off aid to the nation in response to massacres of Christians. Open Doors, which tracks Christian persecutions worldwide, estimates that 3,100 Nigerian Christians have been killed so far in 2025, making up a large portion of the estimated 4,476 Christians murdered worldwide this year alone.
“If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. 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,” Trump said on Saturday. “I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action.”
Boko Haram is the most prominent Islamic terrorist organization in the nation, being responsible for a years-long campaign of targeted attacks against Christians, especially in the northern region of the country.
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