In recent weeks, hundreds of child soldiers in eastern Congo's catastrophic war have returned home, sometimes to the same villages where they killed and pillaged. Some have been forced back out ...

Nowhere has the use of child soldiers been as pernicious as in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. But in the past three years of relative peace, militia groups as well as the Army were starting ...

Aid groups in Congo have secured the release of more than 200 child soldiers from militia fighters who forcibly recruited them in the east of the country, the U.N. children's agency said Saturday.

Like many of Congo's armed groups, Karim's forces have recruited child soldiers. Soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo stand at the Kpandroma Camp. They are paid very ...

In recent weeks, hundreds of child soldiers in eastern Congo’s catastrophic war have returned home, sometimes to the same villages where they killed and pillaged. Some have been forced back out ...

Becker says that the issuance of blanket waivers has not proven to be effective in addressing the recruitment of child soldiers. She points to the example of Congo, which has used hundreds of ...

Four child soldiers must not be executed by the government of Congo, Human Rights Watch said today. In a meeting today with the foreign minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, She Okitundu ...

The UN allegations against the M23 militia in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) could become an embarrassment for Ottawa, which has chosen Rwanda as a key hub for its child-soldiers ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr Ewelina U Ochab is a Forbes contributor, lawyer, and author. On December 31, 2024, the United Nations warned that armed ...

In recent weeks, hundreds of child soldiers in eastern Congo's catastrophic war have returned home, sometimes to the same villages where they killed and pillaged. Some have been forced back out ...

For Congo’s child soldiers, brutalised and forced to kill, rehabilitation is a long journey. Yet in war-ravaged eastern Congo one transitional centre is slowly helping them rebuild their lives.