On December 31, 2024, the United Nations warned that armed groups have increased recruitment and use of children for armed ...

Roughly 21,000 children have been recruited as soldiers by government forces and armed groups across Africa in the past five years. In 2020, about 337 million children lived within 50km of active ...

Around a decade later, a protocol prohibiting the recruitment and use as soldiers of all children under 18 years ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and ...

Former Central African soldier Derrick Ngamana’s family finds itself in a Kafkaesque struggle to recover his remains after he ...

A lesser-known amphibious landing along France's Mediterranean played a big role in liberating the country from the Nazis. Those troops were under French command, but hailed mostly from Africa.