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The UN body did not give an explanation for the rise in numbers.
“We feel this is just the way Boko Haram terrorises women and children in the community,” Milen Kidane, UNICEF’s chief of child protection, told Al Jazeera from Nigeria’s capital, Abuja.
Hafsat Muhammed, a Nigerian rights activist and journalist, said the actual number of children used by the armed group is even higher.
“The conflict has reached to a stage that these insurgents are diverting attention by using children,” she told Al Jazeera.
Muhammed said that armed groups like Boko Haram give children a sense of belonging in a society where they do not have the basic necessities.
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