OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) 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.
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (Associated Press) Trapped in conflicts, the children of West and Central Africa are the most recruited by armed groups in the w.
Adama Drabo, 16, sits in the police station in Sevare, some 620 kilometres north of Mali s capital Bamako on Friday, Jan. 25, 2013. AP Photo
SEVARE, MALI: The boy sits with his knees tucked under his chest on the concrete floor of the police station here, his adolescent face a tableau of fear.
He s still garbed in the knee-length tunic he was ordered to wear by the militant who recruited him. It s these same clothes which gave him away when he tried to flee earlier this week. They have now become his prison garb.
Adama Drabo is 16, and his recruitment into the ranks of a group designated as a terrorist organisation, followed by his violent interrogation at the hands of the Malian army, underscores the obstacles faced by France as it tries to wash its former West African colony clean of the Al Qaeda-linked fighters occupying it.
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