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ISS: Children on the battlefield: ISWAP’s latest recruits

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In January, the violent extremist group Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) released a video showing young boys undergoing strenuous combat training. As the...

Number of children recruited into conflict grows in West and Central...

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West and Central Africa has recorded the highest number of children recruited into conflict of any region in the world, and the number is...

UNICEF concerned about child soldier reports from Mozambique

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The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) added its voice to that of Human Right Watch regarding “worrying reports” of child soldiers in Mozambique. “Unverified video material...

Children forced into soldiering in Mozambique – HRW

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An Islamic State (ISIS) linked armed group in northern Mozambique reportedly kidnaps boys to fight government forces in violation of the international prohibition on...

More than 8 500 children used as soldiers in 2020: UN

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More than 8 500 children were used as soldiers last year in various conflicts across the world and nearly 2 700 others were killed,...

Children seen at risk of recruitment in Central African Republic fighting

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Armed groups have recruited nearly 3 000 children in Central African Republic (CAR) since violence flared over a 27 December election result and more...

Pandemic woes seen swelling global ranks of child soldiers

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More children could be pushed into joining armed groups in conflict zones as families face increasing poverty due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a top...

Children of the gun

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Ending the use of child soldiers will require sustained commitment to reintegration. M.K. was an unruly child, by his own admission. The Idgwi island boy was...

Increase in South Sudan child soldiers

Forced recruitment of child soldiers is increasing in South Sudan despite a peace deal last year, the head of a United Nations investigating body...

Nigerian militia releases hundreds of children

A regional militia allied with Nigerian government forces freed almost 900 children it used in the war against Islamist Boko Haram insurgents, the United...

UN concerned about recruitment and use of child soldiers

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Earlier this month about 300 child soldiers were formally released by armed groups in South Sudan according to the UN mission there....

Child soldiers freed in South Sudan but recruitment heats up –...

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Armed groups in South Sudan released 145 children on Tuesday, the UN children's agency (UNICEF) said, calling on warring parties to stop...

Sierra Leone ‘helped deploy ex-child soldiers to Iraq’, academic says

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Sierra Leone's government helped British private security service firms recruit former child soldiers to work as guards in Iraq from 2009, said...

Nine-year-old girl in record release of South Sudan child soldiers

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A nine-year-old girl was among hundreds of child soldiers freed in South Sudan over the last three days, part of the largest...

More child soldiers demobilised in South Sudan

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A further 300 children have been released from an armed group in South Sudan, the second UN-backed demobilisation of child soldiers in...

Tears, chants as rebel child soldiers are freed in South Sudan

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The teenage rebel soldiers watched as their comrades handed over their assault rifles and stripped off their oversized khaki uniforms with the...

U.N. secures pledge to free 3,000 South Sudan child soldiers

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The United Nations has secured a pledge for the release of about 3,000 child soldiers in South Sudan, in what it called...

Child soldiers swell fighters’ ranks in Central African Republic

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The number of child soldiers in Central African Republic has more than doubled to as many as 6,000 in recent months as...

Children lured from Rwanda to fight with Congo rebels: U.N.

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A third of child soldiers who have escaped from Congolese rebel group M23 were lured from neighboring Rwanda with promises of cash,...

South Sudan: UN mission presses for all child soldiers to be...

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The United Nations peacekeeping operation in South Sudan today called on the country's military to ensure that all child soldiers within its...

Congo warlord defence opens at ICC

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Lawyers for warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, accused of recruiting child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), will open their defence...