NCJ Number
129197
Date Published
1989
Length
126 pages
Annotation
This report documents the impacts of apartheid, guerrilla wars, and other military action on the children of South Africa, Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, and other parts of southern Africa.
Abstract
The report notes that 25 children die every hour from the effects of war in southern Africa. The deaths occur from direct military action; lack of food resulting from a combination of drought and the security situation; and the combined effects of malnutrition, disease, and a breakdown in the network of rural health services. The text also notes that the politics of the region has become more complicated since its last report and that the fighting and continued destabilization have caused a deterioration of yearly measurement of child welfare. Discussions of specific problems and impacts in individual countries, maps, tables, figures, reference lists, glossary, and author biographies