US and Nigerian Talks Underway Against Boko Haram

"We've had serious problems with Christians who have been murdered, killed"

Vanguard- Nigerian News Source
BBC Article

April 30th 2018

Boko Haram extremists in Nigeria have killed more than 20,000 people in the last nine years in a bloody quest to establish an Islamist state.

The president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari visited President Trump on the 30th of April 2018 (being the first Sub-Saharan leader to visit the oval since Trumps appointing) where they discussed mechanisms to tackle Boko Haram. A solution to this (according to Buhari) is to seal a deal of buying "a dozen A-29 Super Tucano turboprop light attaches aircraft," worth $496 million which President Obama previously froze after Nigerian air force bombed a refugee camp, killing more than 100 people on a mission against Boko Haram.

President Trump has stated that he has had "serious problems with Christians who have been murdered, killed" (referring to the attack on April 24 on a Church in central Nigeria where 18 people, including two priests, were murdered) and that he is: work[ing] on that problem and working on that problem very, very hard"

Despite his comments on "shit hole countries" (which Buhari refused to comment on) President Trumps seems to not deny what he said, his sudden interest in these "shit hole countries" will be interesting to watch.

The Vanguard article was able to give a deeper insight into the Boko Haram problem in Nigeria as well as provide the reader a more information on the perspective of a Nigerian who can view the conversation from a point of view which could not be seen in the BBC article.

The BBC article tends to only illustrate the opinions of Trump in a way of showing him as a villan and not of the issue which Buhari came to the U.S to discuss. By doing so, the reader is unable to understand the fatal issue of Boko Haram and is blind sighted by the BBC reporters comment on what President Buhari thought of Trump's comment on "shit hole countries" (which is important) but however, it over shed the real issue of Boko Haram