Boko Haram child suicide bombings have surged 11-fold in West Africa over the last year, Unicef said on Tuesday. There were 44 child suicide bombings in West Africa last year, up from four in 2014, mostly in Cameroon and Nigeria. Children as young as eight, mostly girls, are detonating bombs in schools and markets. Suicide bombings have spread beyond Nigeria’s borders, with an increasing number of deadly attacks carried out by children with explosives hidden under their clothes...
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