Mali is on the verge of falling to an Islamist group that has pledged to transform the country into a pre-modern caliphate.

The White House last week redesignated Nigeria as ” a country of particular concern,” a State Department list of countries that are said to violate religious freedom. President Donald Trump was ...

Ambassador Olufemi Ajadi Oguntoyinbo, a Nigerian advocate of good governance and social reform, has cautioned the United States President Donald Trump against heeding suggestions to establish a US ...

Since his coming to power, against the overwhelming opinion of Americans, he has lurched from one fiasco locally and internationally to the other, embarrassing his countrymen who have had to bear the ...

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The killers, as they so often do, descended under cover of darkness, the sound of their arrival masked by falling rain. Most residents of Yelewata, a Christian farming village in central Nigeria’s ...

Radical Islamic militants “brutally murdered” 17 Nigerian Christians in recent days, according to two sources familiar with ...

Trump rhetoric prompts fears that military intervention could further destabilise a country racked by bloodshed ...

Threats are response to a campaign by U.S. Christian groups and politicians who describe Nigerian attacks as genocide against Christians, a claim analysts say is inaccurate ...

We then tested these findings statistically against 286 agreements concluded in violent conflicts worldwide. This confirmed that – together – UN leadership and the inclusion of women in post-conflict ...

President Trump is threatening to bomb Nigeria, alleging the country is failing to protect Christians from persecution, even ...

AFRICOM could have a two-front battle against Islamic militants on its hands if the president follows through on a threat to send the military into Nigeria.