JAKARTA - US President Donald Trump said Christians face threats in Nigeria. The US has included the West African country on the State Department's watch list.

"Critencies face an existential threat in Nigeria. Thousands of Christians were killed. Radical Islamist groups are responsible for this mass massacre," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

He said he would include Nigeria, Africa's largest oil producer and most populous country, on the list of "Special Attention-Requiring Countries" that the US findings found involved in religious freedom violations. The list includes China, Myanmar, North Korea, Russia, and Pakistan, according to the State Department's website.

Trump said he asked US Representatives Riley Moore and Tom Cole, as well as the House Budget Allocation Committee, to investigate the matter and report back to him.


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