A new report by the United Nations Children’s Fund says 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.
FILE - 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 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.
More than 3,500 children have been abducted, making it the region with the second-highest abductions in the world, said the report. Since 2005, when the U.N. established a system to monitor and report on serious violations against children, such as recruitment, abduction, rape and attacks on schools and hospitals, one out of four violations globally was committed in West and Central Africa, said the report.
While some countries have been a concern for nearly a decade or more, there are three new areas of concern: Burkina Faso, Cameroon and the countries surrounding Lake Chad, according to the U.N.'s annual report on children and armed conflict.
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