Dhaka, Monday, Mar 02, 2026
The African Union Commission has dismissed claims by former US President Donald Trump that “very large numbers” of Christians were being killed in northern Nigeria, saying there is no genocide taking place in Africa’s most populous nation.“What’s going on in the northern part of Nigeria has nothing to do with the kind of atrocities we see in Sudan or in some parts of eastern DRC,” AU Commission Chairperson Mahmoud Ali Youssouf told reporters at the United Nations in New York on Wednesday, referring to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.“Think twice before making such statements,” Youssouf said, stressing that “the first victims of Boko Haram are Muslims, not Christians.”The armed extremist group Boko Haram has terrorised Nigeria’s northeast for nearly 15 years, killing tens of thousands of people—most of them Muslims, according to human rights experts.Earlier this month, Trump accused Nigeria of allowing mass killings of Christians and said he ...
