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Journalist Jeffrey Gettleman suggests that the concentration of child soldiers in Africa is due to the shift among armed groups from being ideal-oriented to economically-driven. [20] Additionally, countries like Sudan have shifted towards the use of child soldiers after the decolonization and independence from Europe in 1956.
Africa has the highest growth rate in the use of children in conflict, and on average, the age of those enlisted is also receding. [6] In 2003 it was estimated that up to 30,000 children were used as soldiers in the DRC, with children making up to forty percent of some militias. [7]
According to Child Soldiers International, boys and girls as young as eight are trained to fight and use light weapons such as AK47s, knives and machetes, and are often used in frontline positions. Children are also widely used as guards, porters, messengers, spies, cooks, and for sexual purposes.
Pages in category "Child soldiers in Africa" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Girl soldiers, also referred to as female child soldiers, [1] girls in fighting forces [2] [3] or girls associated with an armed force or armed group (GAAFAG), [4] have been recruited by armed forces and groups in the majority of conflicts in which child soldiers are used. A wide range of rough estimates of their percentage among child soldiers ...
In 2003, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimated that up to half of children involved with state armed forces and non-state armed groups worldwide were in Africa. [44] In 2004, Child Soldiers International estimated that 100,000 children were being used in state and non-state armed forces on the continent; [108] and ...
Senegal on Sunday commemorated the 80th anniversary of a massacre of African soldiers who fought for France during World War Two, and were gunned down by French troops in 1944 for demanding fair ...
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 (Liberian politician)'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.