Nigeria Is Turning into a US-China Battleground

 Foreign Policy published on 20 November 2025 a commentary titled "Nigeria Is Turing into a U.S.-China Battleground" by Patrick Egwu, a Nigerian-born freelance journalist based in Toronto.

After President Donald Trump threatened military action against Nigeria over the alleged persecution of Christians by Islamic insurgents, China has stepped in to oppose Trump's actions--deepening the contest between Washington and Beijing for the allegiance of Africa's most populous country.

Religious Diversity in East Africa and the Horn

The Pew Research Center published on 4 April 2014 a study on Global Religious Diversity.  It gives a score to all countries of the world on their degree of religious diversity.  Higher scores indicate higher diversity.  The 10-point scoring system designates countries with scores of 7.0 and higher (the top 5 percent) as having a very high degree of religious diversity.  Countries with scores from 5.3 to 6.9 percent (the next highest 15 percent of scores) have a high level of diversity.  Countries with scores from 3.1 to 5.2 (the following 20 percent of scores) have moderate diversity.  The remaining countries have low diversity.

South Sudan (6.0), Tanzania (5.7), Ethiopia (5.6) and Eritrea (5.4) have high religious diversity.  Kenya (3.1) has moderate diversity.  Uganda (2.7), Sudan (2.0), Djibouti (0.7), and Somalia (0.1) have low diversity.  The study also provides the percentage of different religions for each country.