Boko Haram Is Using More Child Suicide Bombers

Boko Haram is using children as suicide bombers at an increasing rate in West Africa, according to a new report by UNICEF.

The report found that 1 in 5 suicide bombers deployed by the terrorist group in the past two years have been children—and most of those children were girls. The tenfold increase of children coerced into carrying bombs, from 4 in 2014 to 44 in 2015, has created "fear and suspicion" in communities who now view them as a threat, wrote the U.N. children's agency on Tuesday.