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The White House’s swaggering statements about the potential deployment of American troops to Nigeria to protect local Christians from the atrocities committed by terrorist organisations have raised serious doubts within US military and political circles regarding the feasibility of such a project, given the significant difficulties it presupposes.

On 31st October 2025, US President Donald Trump unexpectedly informed Nigerian leaders that he had placed Nigeria on the list of countries causing particular concern to the US, due to persecution of Christians within the country, which borders on genocide.

Seventeen African countries raised new flags, established new constitutions, and sent delegates to the United Nations in 1960, the Year of Africa, according to historians. The world reacted positively to the official start of a new era of “independence.” But was that enough?