US to send 200 Troops to Fight Terrorism in Nigeria

The U.S. is planning to send 200 American troops to help fight terrorism in Nigeria, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The contingent will reinforce a small group of U.S. military personnel already on the ground there.
Officials say the U.S. troops will not be involved directly in combat, but their mission is to train Nigeria's military to fight Islamic militants.


President Trump had accused the federal government of failing to protect Christians from terror attacks.
Last November, he warned on Truth Social that the U.S. military was ready to go into Nigeria "guns-a-blazing," arguing the Federal government was allowing Christians to be slaughtered.

He later told a reporter, "They're killing record numbers of Christians in Nigeria, and they have other countries very bad, also. You know that. That part of the world is very bad. They're killing the Christians and killing them in very large numbers. We're not going to allow that to happen."



President Tinubu had rejected those accusations saying that both Christians and Muslims suffer at the hands of terrorist groups.

But the persecution watchdog Open Doors lists Nigeria as the seventh most dangerous country in the world for Christians.