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.
Trump tells military to prepare for 'action' against Islamist militants in Nigeria
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cev18jy21w7o
13 Comments
Maroon@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 293d
tornavish@lemmy.cafe · 7 pts · 293d
For real.
KingPapaDaddy@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 293d
What happened to "no new wars"?
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 293d
He didn’t get his Nobel peace prize.
Xaphanos@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 293d
Venezuela and Nigeria. Hmmm. I wonder what those two countries might have in common.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 293d
I think I know this one. It's oil right? Lots and lots of fucking oil he's trying to steal.
Darkard@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 293d
Mr Peace Prize everyone
Fandangalo@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 293d
Sludge@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 293d
Chucklefuck is going to start a religion based war? What the absolute fuck. Does Nigeria have rare earth metals? If so this would likely be a play to get the government to "owe him" 70 years of unregulated mining or something absurd... So much for "america-first." Nice to know children here will die without food while he wants to spend whatever it takes to bomb African Muslims.
hateisreality@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 293d
Oil, they have oil
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 293d
Part4@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 293d
Lot of oil coming out of Nigeria. If they fight and some die, it will be to protect somebody else's oil profits.
Ascrod@midwest.social · 4 pts · 293d
It's really about him just not liking black people isn't it?
FaceDeer@fedia.io · 5 pts · 293d
There's oil there.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 293d
Wut.