En réponse à Trump, le chef de l'UA affirme qu'il "n'y a pas de génocide" au Nigeria
Nigeria, the most populous country on the African continent with 230 million inhabitants, is divided roughly equally between a predominantly Christian south and a predominantly Muslim north.
It is the scene of a multitude of conflicts, including jihadist insurgencies, which, according to experts, kill both Christians and Muslims, often without distinction.
In early November, the American president raised the threat of armed intervention in Nigeria, citing persecution and "murders of Christians" perpetrated by "Islamist terrorists".
"There is no genocide in northern Nigeria," Mahamoud Ali Youssouf retorted on Wednesday at a press conference in New York alongside UN Secretary-General António Guterres. "The complexity of the situation in northern Nigeria should give us pause before making such statements."
As an oil-producing country, Nigeria faces several security challenges.
In the northeast of the country, the jihadist insurgency led by the Boko Haram group (active since 2009) and its rival dissident faction, the Islamic State in West Africa (ISWAP), has killed more than 40,000 people and forced more than two million people to flee their homes, according to United Nations figures.
"The first victims of Boko Haram are Muslims, not Christians," Mahamoud Ali Youssouf also stated.
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le génocide, c'est plutôt à Gaza
EPSTAIN EPSTAIN , EPSTAIN , EPSTAIN , EPSTAIN
Peut-être que si c'était quelques musulmans tués par les terroristes on le qualifierait de génocide.... comme c'est des Chrétiens c'est jamais grave, religion la plus persécutée au monde d'ailleurs malgré toutes les victimisations usuelles des mêmes personnes...
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