A 2021 United Nations (UN) report highlighted West and Central Africa as the regions with the highest verified child soldier recruitment from 2016-20. Minors typically join armed groups through ...

A 2021 United Nations (UN) report highlighted west and central Africa as the regions with the highest verified child soldier recruitment from 2016 to 2020. Globally, in 2021 alone, 6,310 children ...

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 ...

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.

The latest data from the British Film Institute (BFI) shows that in 2019, every $1.31 (£1) of reimbursement handed to studios ...

Research on child soldiers in 1998 revealed that an estimated ... a peacekeeping force set up by the Economic Community of West African States. Children recruited as soldiers by the AFRC/RUF ...

Government and rebel forces in South Sudan stand accused of recruiting and using child soldiers in combat ... compound," said the organisation's Africa director Daniel Bekele.

Watch how a psychological operations team helped end the war lord Joseph Kony's reign in Africa where he was kidnapping kids and forcing them to fight as child soldiers. They've been doing ...

Former child soldiers of rebel groups operating in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). [Mark Oloo, Standard] Ms Furaha Penina, 23, shook with fury at the mere mention of rebel groups ...

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