Washington has announced that it has signed a deal to strengthen Nigeria’s health system, a sign of improving ties with Africa’s most populous nation after President Donald Trump denounced attacks against Christians there.
A US State Department spokesman who disclosed this said under a five-year bilateral deal, Washington will contribute nearly Two point Billion Dollars to help prevent HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, and polio, and to protect maternal and child health.
The spokesman said Nigeria has committed to increasing its national health spending by nearly Three Billion Dollars over the five-year period adding that the bilateral deal contains “a strong emphasis on promoting Christian faith-based health care providers.”
Trump last month stunned many by posting on social media that the United States was ready to take military action in Nigeria to counter the killing of Christians.
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