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According to the paper, while the figures for Christian deaths cited by some US officials were alarming, “assessing their accuracy is hard.”<\/em><\/p>\n Data cited by US government officials to claim a Christian genocide in Nigeria cannot be independently verified, a BBC investigation has shown.<\/p>\n The report<\/a><\/strong>, published last Thursday, showed that much of the data used in the US political discourse to justify the threat of military action against the West African country is questionable.<\/p>\n \n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> According to the paper, while the figures for Christian deaths cited by some US officials were alarming, “assessing their accuracy is hard.” Data cited by US government officials to claim a Christian genocide in Nigeria cannot be independently verified, a BBC investigation has shown. The report, published last Thursday, showed that much of the data […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":213080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,13514,464,9880,318,257,4687,393,24610,52833,5144,254,2282],"class_list":["post-213079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allegation","tag-christian","tag-data","tag-genocide","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-questionable","tag-quoted","tag-report","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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