The Islamist terror group Boko Haram is drugging children to turn them into suicide bombers, according to a shocking report today from Unicef.

Eight years after the conflict began and three years since the Chibok girls abduction, the report Silent Shame describes how the situation in the Lake Chad Basin is deteriorating and how thousands of children abducted in Nigeria and elsewhere are enduring ‘unimaginable horrors’.

‘This crisis is marked by massive violations of children’s rights – evident in the use of children on both sides of the insurgency. Boko Haram, in particular, has been leading a systematic campaign of abduction that has forced thousands of girls and boys into their ranks.

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