Child Soldiers in Africa

Please imagine waking up with a cold sweat and screaming like appealing in your dreams. You wake up every day and fear that you must live an innocent life on that day. Well, for some children in Africa this is a sad, distorted reality. UNICEF is called UNICEF and defines child soldiers as "any children or girls under the age of 18, part of any form of customary or irregular armed groups or armed groups of all forms" (Kaplan, cfr.org this Is a very difficult field for Africa Many children are often members of rebel factions and even part of government forces.

Child soldiers in Africa means troops of African nation and other armed groups, juveniles less than 18 years old. Normally, this classification involves services for children in a non-combat role (such as cooks and couriers), but also fights the child's role. It is estimated by its children's soldiers in Africa, armed conflict in 2008, 40% faster than other continents of children in the world's children. Also, it seems that the average age of children recruited as soldiers is decreasing. As of 2017, there are 7 in Africa, the United Nations list of 14 countries, the adoption of national armed forces and armed groups, and the use of child soldiers. Central African Republic, Congo, Mali, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Sudan

The problem of children soldiers in Africa is increasing. The age of the official army, most African countries (enlistment can participate in the age of the military) In other countries the number of 21 years is 18 years, this is especially peace, unity And with clear abuse of human rights it is not so. Today, many African boys' soldiers participated in war and conflict countries. These children are forced to participate in the army to various groups of different countries in the African continent to power the group of options. You can use different ways to exploit the vulnerability of children and include some of these recruitment of African boys' soldiers.

Most African children soldiers are boys, but the proportion of girls is high, accounting for about 40% of children soldiers. However, girls are more vulnerable to abuse and are mainly used for sexual purposes by male soldiers. In some countries girls are taken or raped by military commanders to become their wives. In the past 10 years more facts have shown that malice is spreading in almost all conflict areas in Africa. Because they are easy to operate, children are mainly recruited to the military. This is because they are very young and can not understand or resist any order. Child soldiers are the first choice, mainly because they eat less food and no salary than adults. Since children are not so dangerous it is easy to send them to the line of fire. Children adopted mainly come from poor families, they can not receive education, and some are away from their families or have been kicked out.