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Boko Haram Use Of Child Suicide Bombers Has Increased Tremenduosly -UNICEF Report

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According to a new UNICEF report, Boko Haram use of child suicide bombers in the Nigeria has increased ten-fold in the past year.

Nearly one in five suicide attacks orchestrated by Boko Haram are now carried out by children, more than 75 per cent of which are performed by girls.

Unicef’s report, Beyond Chibok, released two years after Boko Haram abducted 276 schoolgirls in the area, shows that the number of children involved in suicide attacks in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger increased from four to 44 in the space of a year.

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Akin Akingbala is an international journalist based in Lagos, Nigeria. Aside being happily married, he has interests in music, sports and loves traveling.

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