Gunmen kidnap hundreds of Catholic schoolchildren in Nigeria
Attack comes just weeks after Donald Trump threatened to deploy US military if Christians were targeted
Attack comes just weeks after Donald Trump threatened to deploy US military if Christians were targeted

Nigerians say claims of religious persecution are false but blame government for inaction over violence

US conservatives have alleged Islamist insurgents in the country are carrying out a genocide

Its government is failing to protect everyone, not only Christians

President posts on social media that the defence department ‘executed numerous perfect strikes’

US missile attacks on Christmas Day hit a part of Nigeria’s north-west that is almost entirely Muslim

The US can browbeat Africa’s most populous country because it no longer needs or wants anything from its erstwhile ally