{"id":40181,"date":"2025-11-05T21:01:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/11\/05\/nigeria-facing-multiplicity-of-security-challenges-communal-clashes-separatists-insurgencies\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T21:01:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:01:43","slug":"nigeria-facing-multiplicity-of-security-challenges-communal-clashes-separatists-insurgencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2025\/11\/05\/nigeria-facing-multiplicity-of-security-challenges-communal-clashes-separatists-insurgencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria facing &lsquo;multiplicity of security challenges&rsquo;: Communal clashes, separatists, insurgencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Nigerian government said it does not tolerate religious persecution, responding to US President Donald Trump&rsquo;s threats of military intervention over the killing of Christians by jihadists in the country. Trump said on social media that he had asked the Pentagon to map out a possible plan of attack in Africa&rsquo;s most populous nation because radical Islamists are \u00ab\u00a0killing the Christians and killing them in very large numbers\u00a0\u00bb. But Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar insisted that the country&rsquo;s constitution did not allow religious persecution, in the first comment by a senior Nigerian government official following Trump&rsquo;s weekend threats. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective, Fran\u00e7ois Picard welcomes Najim Animashaun, Nonresident Research Fellow at the African Policy Research Institute.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian government said it does not tolerate religious persecution, responding to US President Donald Trump&rsquo;s threats of military intervention over the killing of Christians by jihadists in the country. Trump said on social media that he had asked the Pentagon to map out a possible plan of attack in Africa&rsquo;s most populous nation because &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-40181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}