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At least 100,000 babies die every year because of armed conflict and its impact, from hunger to denial of aid, Save the Children International said on Friday.<\/p>\n

In the 10 worst-hit countries, a conservative estimate of 550,000 infants died as a result of fighting between 2013 and 2017.<\/p>\n

They succumbed to war and its effects, among them hunger, damage to hospitals and infrastructure, a lack of access to health care and sanitation and the denial of aid.<\/p>\n

It said children face the threat of being killed or maimed, recruited by armed groups, abducted or falling victim to sexual violence.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAlmost one in five children are living in areas impacted by conflict more than at any time in the past two decades,\u201d said the charity\u2019s CEO Helle Thorning-Schmidt in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe number of children being killed or maimed has more than tripled, and we are seeing an alarming increase in the use of aid as a weapon of war,\u201d she said on releasing the report at the Munich Security Conference.<\/p>\n

Save the Children said a study it had commissioned from the Peace Research Institute Oslo had found that 420 million children were living in conflict-affected areas in 2017.<\/p>\n

This represents 18 percent of all children worldwide and was up by 30 million from the previous year.<\/p>\n

The worst-hit countries were Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Mali, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen.<\/p>\n

The total number of deaths from indirect effects over the five-year period jumped to 870,000 when all children under the age of five were included, the charity said.<\/p>\n

It also issued a list of recommendations to help protect children, from steps such as committing to a minimum age of 18 for military recruitment to the avoidance of using explosive weapons in populated areas.<\/p>\n

Thorning-Schmidt said the rising number of child casualties was very worrying.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is shocking that in the 21st century we are going backwards on principles and moral standards that are so simple \u2014 children and civilians should never be targeted.\u201d<\/p>\n

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