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Washington’s policy of unrelenting pressure on the Nigerian government, which began last October, has gained further momentum in the recommendations developed by members of the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Having received the unflattering critique of Trump’s statement regarding Nigeria both within the US and abroad, with this negative assessment pointing at the lack of American understanding of the processes unfolding in Nigeria, Washington has apparently decided to ease the intensity of the diplomatic tension, arisen between the countries.

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.