Zelda Caldwell, ACI Africa
Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Less than three weeks after the United States launched a Christmas Day attack on Islamist terrorist camps in northwestern Nigeria, a band of armed militants rampaged through the neighboring states of Niger and Kebbi, killing at least 47 people and kidnapping women and children. Any hope that the U.S. intervention would serve as a deterrent to the violence that has plagued the country quickly faded. Nigerian Catholics have serious doubts that the violence against Christians will end without a sustained plan and commitment from their government to stop it.
