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Babes In Warland Agrarian Reforms Urbanization And Child Abuse Essay

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The pictorial shows how perpetrators of civil wars take advantage of children. Children are enlisted in rebel army ranks in many armed conflicts in the African continent. Amnesty International estimates that over 250, 000 children under the age of 18 years take part in armed conflicts. UNICEF reports that the services of more than 300-000 children are used in the armed conflicts in the DRC. The services of child soldiers have been enlisted in virtually all armed conflicts in Africa. Talk of Zairean Tutsi fighters in the DRC, the Young Somali Islamist fighters, the Al-shabab militias, Joseph Kony's Lords Resistance Army in Uganda and the Liberian United for Reconciliation and Democracy fighters. The United States backed Somali government also enlisted child soldiers (Anonymous, n.d.).

Armed conflicts that have led to conscription of child soldiers into rebel army ranks are occasioned by competition over land. Land continues to be very scarce as population grows....

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Because of agricultural intensification and commercialization, the value of land has also gone high in many regions. In areas where we currently have armed conflicts, land was traditionally used for farming and herding. As customary institutions that balanced different interests weakened, tension ensued. People started competing for strategic natural resources like few irrigated lands, water points, and pastures. Conflicts that have been witnessed in southern Africa have largely been occasioned by inequitable land distribution and slow land reform programs. This can be cited in Zimbabwean case where many white owned commercial farms were invaded (Cotula, Toulmin & Hesse, 2004). The Zimbabwean case echoes the need for land reforms and reparations. Private investors' activities have also generated conflicts (Moyo, 2008). These individuals use the lands for commercial production and speculation to mining at the expense of the local natives. People who seek land where they can settle and farm also contribute to too many land conflicts in Africa. Large numbers of people flow into such areas to settle and farm. There are…

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Anonymous. (n.d.). Babes in Warland - An FP Slideshow | Foreign Policy. Foreign Policy - the global magazine of economics, politics, and ideas. Retrieved August 16, 2012, from http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/10/29/babes_in_war_land#0

Cotula, L., Toulmin, C., & Hesse, C. (2004). Land Tenure and Administration in Africa: Lessons

of experience and Emerging Issues. London: International Institute for Environment and Development.

Moyo, S. (2008). African Land Questions, Agrarian Transitions and the State: Contradictions of Neo-liberal Land Reforms. Dakar: CODESRIA.
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