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 2016-20. Globally, in 2021 alone, 6 310 children were ...

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 ...

Demobbed child soldiers in DR Congo. Picture: United Nations. Thirty-five years after a United Nations (UN) commitment – by way of a convention – to protect children from being recruited as soldiers, ...

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

Years after their return, thousands of former child soldiers are still struggling to reintegrate into society, as FRANCE 24’s Clement di Roma reports.

First Sgt. Justin Brice was part of the last 150 soldiers with the Utah Army National Guard 204th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, returning Saturday from their 10-month mission to Africa.