africa: UNICEF Calls for Total Ban of Child Soldiers

There are too many hands of African children holding guns instead of pencils or books, United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) executive director Carol Bellamy has said. Briefing journalists at the African Union (AU) summit in Maputo on the involvement of children in African conflicts, Bellamy said the situation was intolerable because the future of the continent lies in the hands of its children.