President William Ruto and US President Donald Trump after the signing of a peace deal between the DRC and Rwanda at the Donald J Trump United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC. [PCS]In a dramatic Christmas Day military intervention, US President Donald Trump announced that he had directed a “powerful and deadly strike” against an ISIS-affiliated terrorist faction in northwest Nigeria. The operation, which Trump claimed targeted jihadists slaughtering “innocent Christians,” has sent shockwaves across Africa and sparked intense speculation about the next potential target of America’s counter-terrorism war.

Source: Standard Digital December 26, 2025 21:00 UTC