Roughly 21 000 children have been recruited as soldiers by government forces and armed groups across Africa in the past five ...

UN commitment to protect children from being recruited as soldiers. However, armed groups have increased the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict.

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

and soldiers from the Economic Community Cease-fire Monitoring Group (ECOMOG), a peacekeeping force set up by the Economic Community of West African States. Children recruited as soldiers by the ...

Child soldiers, underage gold miners, street vendors and cocoa plantation workers: After years of decline in child labor, the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed many African children back to work.

Africa Live: Updates on this and other ... Led by Joseph Kony, it became notorious for abducting thousands of children to use as soldiers or sex slaves, and for mutilating civilians.