Poverty In Africa
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Text Box: A growing war on childhood Extreme poverty is one of the most devastating effects of armed conflict within countries, especially for children, as factions vie for ill-managed national resources. The report notes that 55 of 59 armed conflicts taking place between 1990 and 2003 involved war within, rather than between, countries. The impact on children has been high: Nearly half of the 3.6 million people killed in war since 1990 have been children. And children are certainly not immune from being singled out as targets, as underscored by the September 2004 attack on schoolchildren in Beslan, Russian Federation. Text Box: 640 million children do not have adequate shelter 500 million children have no access to sanitation 400 million children do not have access to safe water 300 million children lack access to information 270 million children have no access to health care services 140 million children have never been to school 90 million children are severely food-deprived