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President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media on board Air Force One on October 31, 2025 at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. [Samuel Corum/Getty Images/AFP]
US President Donald Trump threatened on Saturday to send the military into Nigeria with "guns-a-blazing" if Africa's most populous country does not stem what he described as the killing of Christians by Islamists.
In an explosive post, the Republican leader -- who had campaigned unsuccessfully for the Nobel Peace Prize -- said on social media he asked the Pentagon to map out a possible plan of attack, one day after warning that Christianity was "facing an existential threat in Nigeria."
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