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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first case, expected to go to trial soon, involves a militia leader from the Ituri region of Congo and the use of child soldiers. A militia leader from eastern Congo is said to become the ...

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.

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 ...

He is one of about 15 people, none paid and most part-time, now helping to start a nonprofit organization, Falling Whistles, to help rehabilitate former child soldiers in the Congo. But long ...

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 ...

Rwanda, the first African country to sign onto Canada’s campaign against child soldiers, has been secretly using its own military to recruit and deploy children for combat in eastern Congo ...