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

A family member of one of the South African National Defence Force who died in the DRC said he was a patriot who loved being ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

"General Dragon Master" was a high-ranking member of a brutal rebel force who lied to enter the United States and later ...