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Secondary school students as soft targets of kidnappers


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THE alarm raised recently by the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) on the rising wave of abduction of students by kidnappers should be of serious concern to the country. The agency lamented that between December 2020 and now, a total of 950 students had been abducted from schools by armed men. The most recent of these abductions took place at Bethel Baptist School in Kaduna, where 150 students were taken away by the outlaws. In a statement by its Executive Director, Henrietta Fore, UNICEF said: “On July 5th, 150 students were reportedly abducted from a school in Nigeria’s Kaduna State, marking the latest incident in an alarming spate of attacks against children and abductions, including of students, in parts of West and Central Africa. Such incidents appear to be increasing in frequency, raising fears for the safety and well-being of the region’s children. Already in 2020, according to the latest report of the United Nations Secretary-General on children and ar ....

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Sight Magazine - Conflict in Burkina Faso: Islamist extremist groups expand control to new fronts


Florent Coulibaly, a soldier in Burkina Faso’s army, says he hasn t been sleeping well for the past few months as he is often roused at 3am to fight jihadi rebels.
Until recently life was peaceful in western Burkina Faso’s Comoe province, but an increase in attacks by extremist groups in the country’s west has put the military on edge. 
“It tires us. It gives us a lot of work. It scares us, too,” said Coulibaly, 27. “We don’t know where [the jihadis] are going to come from. They see us, but we don’t see them. They know us, but we don’t know them.” ....

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US envoy: Children in conflict taught to commit war crimes


US envoy: Children in conflict taught to commit war crimes
 
 2021/06/29 07:59
Syrian youth Sobhi, 15, holds an AK-47 assault rifles as he takes part in a military training at a former school turned into a “military academy” in Tallinn in Aleppo province, Syria, Jan. 23, 2013 (Photo: JM Lopez/AFP)
Children caught in conflict are being taught to commit war crimes before they can count, the US ambassador to the United Nations said Monday, pointing to the deadliest attack in Burkina Faso in years, with more than 130 civilians killed by an armed group comprising “mostly 12- to 14-year-olds.”
Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the UN Security Council that many of those killed in the attack in early June were children, and the horrifying raid on the village of Solhan in the West African nation s Sahel’s Yagha province saw “children killing children – children killing children.” ....

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