One 16-year-old girl from Chad lost her legs after being drugged and forced by Boko Haram to take part in an attempted suicide attack on a crowded market, according to the report.
Times of Ahmad | News Watch | US Desk
Source/Credit: Al Jazeera News
By Al Jazeera News | April 11, 2017
UNICEF report highlights increase in the number of children, mostly girls, used by armed group in the Lake Chad region.
The Boko Haram campaign is now in its eighth year having claimed more than 20,000 lives [EPA]
An "alarming" number of children in Africa, most of them girls, have been used as suicide bombers by Boko Haram in 2017, according to UNICEF.
In the countries fighting
Boko Haram in the Lake Chad region - Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Chad - 27 children have been used in suicide attacks by the armed group in the first three months of the year,
UNICEF said in
a report and statement.
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