Ruth Maclean
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 16 Feb
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President Trump has picked up on the idea that has been pushed by a bunch of Republican lawmakers and others for months now that there's what he calls an ongoing Christian genocide in Nigeria.
And it's got to the point where, you know, on Christmas Day, he bombed the north of the country, saying that he was trying to protect Nigerian Christians.
The thing to understand about this narrative that President Trump is pushing is that it really oversimplifies what is actually a very complex situation in Africa's most populous country, so a very complex nation.
You have jihadists, you have what people loosely term bandits, groups of people who often carry out mass kidnappings and killings.
You have separatists, all sorts of different armed actors carrying out this violence on the ground.
And the people being killed come from many different sorts of groups.
And that comprises both Muslims and Christians and people practicing traditional religions in Nigeria.
I think a lot of Nigerians are confused by this narrative and the fact that it's even led to things like airstrikes.
I think a lot of people are worried that the Americans are getting the narrative wrong and that can be a dangerous thing when the most powerful nation in the world is involved and is sending bombs to your country.
But I do think that there are plenty of Nigerians as well who are so fed up with their own government and see American intervention as a positive thing if it can force their own government to act and stop the violence that's playing out across the whole country and is affecting practically everybody.
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