South Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo account for the highest number of children killed in conflicts in Africa.
According to a new report, the two countries account for the biggest numbers of the nearly 1.2 million refugee population in Uganda.
UNICEF and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees latest status report last month showed that children make 60 percent of South Sudanese and Congolese refugees in Uganda.
A report of Save the Children released on February 15 entitled ‘Stop the War on Children’, says five times more children than fighters are killed in conflicts across the world’s hotspots.
The war areas include those in sub Saharan Africa that have exported the largest number of refugees between 2013 and 2017.
‘This report shows the sheer horror and brutality that children who flee to Uganda are escaping,’ said Brechtje van Lith, Save the Children’s Country Director for Uganda.
Other countries listed by the report are Somalia, Central African Republic, Nigeria, Mali, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria and Iraq.