The Terror Network Slaughtering Nigerian Christians Has Escaped America’s Blacklist

Experts and policy change-makers tell the Daily Caller that the Nigerian and U.S. governments are failing to confront the primary threat responsible for the killing of Christians in Nigeria.

Between 2020 and 2025, more than 22,800 Christians were killed, and nearly 16,000 more were abducted in Nigeria, according to a new report by the Observatory for Religious Freedom in Africa. The report found that the group responsible for most of those attacks is not the one drawing the primary focus of either the Nigerian government or the Trump administration.

That group, the Fulani Ethnic Militia (FEM), is responsible for 44 percent of civilian killings during that period, according to the Observatory. Yet U.S. and Nigerian counterterrorism operations remain focused on the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) and Boko Haram, which together account for just 12 percent of civilian killings.

Mark Lipdo, a Nigerian national and founder of the Stefano Foundation, which works with Christian survivors of persecution, said that although he has worked with U.S. officials across the political spectrum, Republicans were the ones who took his warnings seriously.

“We were hopeful that now that Republicans are reigning, we will have results,” Lipdo said, adding that “The unfortunate thing is that the Republicans are targeting the wrong people, the wrong direction.”

But this is a really important map, compared to the previous ones:

This map shows where the terrorists are being killed.

Mostly in the NE & NW.

Not the Middle Belt.

Which is where most Christians ARE being killed.

THIS is the huge problem advocates have been shouting about! pic.twitter.com/KF63t09mkM

— Sean Nelson (@Sean_ADFIntl) July 1, 2026

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