Dakar, Senegal — Nigerians described a mixture of confusion and fear on Sunday as people across the country tried to decipher President Donald Trump’s threat to stop all aid to Africa’s most populous country and go in “guns-a-blazing” after accusing Nigeria’s government of allowing “the killing of Christians.”

Group chats and social media in the West African nation blew up in the wake of Trump’s comments Saturday, with many Nigerians baffled by Trump’s ire. In a post on Truth Social, Trump singled out the plight of Christians targeted by violence in Nigeria, and raised the threat of direct military action.

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