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PAIGC child soldier during the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence, 1974 . Children under the age of 18 have been used by national armed forces and other armed groups in Africa. Typically, this classification includes children serving in non-combatant roles (such as cooks or messengers), as well as those serving in combatant roles. [1]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 January 2025. Leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (born c. 1961) Joseph Kony Head of the Lord's Resistance Army Incumbent Assumed office August 1987 Preceded by Office established Personal details Born 1961 (age 63–64) Odek, Northern Region, British Uganda Children 42 (as of 2006) Military service ...
It is estimated in the academic literature that up to 300,000 children form a part of both irregular, and regular armed forces worldwide, and that this number is increasing. In Africa it is estimated that up to 120,000 children, which is 40 percent of the worldwide total, are currently used as combatants or support personnel.
Children were kidnapped and used extensively during the civil war of 1993–2005. [23] In 2004 hundreds of child soldiers were in the Forces Nationales pour la Libération (FNL), an armed rebel, Hutu group. [24] Children between the ages of 10 and 16 were also conscripted by the Burundese military. [25]
LURD child fighter -A child soldier of the Liberian rebel group LURD at the Po River (2004). The First Liberian Civil War began in 1989, when Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) forces invaded the country in rebellion against the regime of Samuel Doe, who came to power through the 1980 Liberian coup d'état.
The number of children in armed conflict zones are around 250 million. [1] They confront physical and mental harms from war experiences. "Armed conflict" is defined in two ways according to International Humanitarian Law: "1) international armed conflicts, opposing two or more States, 2) non-international armed conflicts, between governmental forces and nongovernmental armed groups, or between ...
Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War. Toronto: Kids Can Press ISBN 978-1-77138-126-0; International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) & The Global Center on Cooperative Security (September 2017). "Correcting the Course: Juvenile Justice Principles for Children Convicted of Violent Extremism Offenses", ICCT & GCCS, 1–12.
Children are abducted from their homes and schools with entire classes at times being abducted. [4] in 2012 Michelle Kagari, Amnesty International's deputy director for Africa, stated that “Somalia is not only a humanitarian crisis: it is a human rights crisis and a children's rights crisis. Children in Somalia risk death constantly; they can ...