West Africa has highest numbers of child soldiers, says UN
Adama Drabo, 16, who was arrested on suspicion of working for Islamic militant group MUJAO, sits in the police station in Sevare, some 620 kilometers (385 miles) north of Mali's capital Bamako Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. Trapped in conflict in a volatile region, children in West and Central Africa have become the most recruited by armed groups with the highest number of victims of sexual violence in the world, said a new report Tuesday Nov. 23, 2021 by the United Nations Children's Fund. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
By SAM MEDNICK
Associated Press
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Trapped in conflicts, the children of West and Central Africa are the most recruited by armed groups in the world and also have the highest number of victims of sexual violence, says a report released Tuesday by the United Nations Children’s Fund....
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