Central Sahel - UNICEF reports surge of violence : Giles Fagninou / Global Issues

Giles Fagninou, RD WCARO

"......cases of recruitment and use of children in armed groups along with killings and maiming increased by more than 130 per cent between the two time periods."

.".....several hundred people were reported killed in Burkina Faso, with reports that more than 220 civilians, including 56 children, were killed in attacks reportedly carried out by the military in two villages on a single day in late February."

"Between February and April, over 1,180 security incidents were reported, which claimed the lives nearly 3,400 people."

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"Ensuring the protection of children is critical, and the violent incidents in the central Sahel region must stop if children are to realise their basic rights to life under the international Convention on the Rights of the Child and the regional African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child.

“UNICEF calls on all involved in the ongoing crisis in central Sahel to put an end to all forms of violence, killing and abuse of children, in line with their obligations under international law,” - Gilles Fagninou, UNICEF’s regional director for West and Central Asia,