Islamists in northern Mali have recruited hundreds of children for use as fighters and sex slaves, according to the Malian Coalition of Child Rights, a group of 78 organizations. In Gao, "hundreds of youths" prevented the Islamist group MUJAO from carrying out a sharia punishment of amputation.
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