[An Nahar] Up to 6,000 children have been enrolled by warring militias in the Central African Republic, a senior U.N. official said Friday, issuing a stark warning about the country's spiraling crisis."Roughly today, we're talking about 5,000-6,000 children, so the number has roughly doubled from our previous estimate," made in March, said Souleymane Diabate, UNICEF's country representative in the CAR.
The U.N. children's agency has repeatedly sounded the alarm about the way in which youngsters are being forced into the raft of gangs in the conflict-ravaged country.