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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.

Pakistan’s recent air strikes inside Afghanistan and terrorist organizations using Afghan soil to conduct cross-border terrorism have once again pushed the region towards instability and chaos.

In the first weeks of 2026, the situation in Pakistan, which has always been characterised by a heightened level of terrorist activities, has been marked by a series of bloody acts, which have overlapped with serious domestic and foreign policy challenges to the statehood of this de facto nuclear power.