Armed Groups Free 145 Child Soldiers in South Sudan
UNICEF says it has negotiated the largest single release of child soldiers in South Sudan since 2015. Once reunited with family they receive three months of food aid and livestock. Two armed groups in South Sudan released 145 child soldiers, the United Nations children’s agency (UNICEF) reported on Wednesday. It was the largest single release […]
South Sudan Commanders Accused of Using Child Soldiers
More than a dozen senior commanders and officials who children say recruited them as soldiers in South Sudan should be investigated, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday The United Nations says 16,000 children have joined armed groups since South Sudan’s civil war erupted two years ago. “It’s the brutal recruitment that is the most […]
CAR Freed Child Soldiers to Join Their Families
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) is working to reintegrate 163 child soldiers with their families where possible, or provide job and skill training along with psychological services, Mohamed Malick Fall, UNICEF’s representative in the Central African Republic said, Associated Press reported. The 163 child soldiers were released during a ceremony on Friday, August 28, […]
Yazidi Child Soldiers Take Revenge on Islamic State
Singled out for genocide by the so-called Islamic State and abandoned by the Iraqi Kurds, young Yazidis on Mount Sinjar in Iraq are flocking to the militias and ideology of a quasi-Marxist group blacklisted as a terrorist organization in the West. Formed into what they’re calling Sinjar Protection Units, or YBŞ, the Yazidis—both male and […]
