President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to send US forces 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 on his Truth Social platform, the Republican leader -- who had campaigned unsuccessfully for the Nobel Peace Prize -- said 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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