“They denied his application to leave. My child would be alive today if the military sent him home when he asked to return home. He asked them to go home, he was scared and depressed, and they refused ...

Merely absorbing armed groups into a reserve force does little to address the underlying causes of the eastern DRC crisis.

Since the start of the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, child soldiers have been recruited to fight, some as young as 14. After they are demobilised from armed groups, many suffer ...

For example, in the DRC, the U.N. Group of Experts on the ... of State published a list of 17 countries that recruit or use child soldiers. The list includes Afghanistan, Burma, Cameroon, the ...

A Uruguayan soldier who was part of the United Nations Stabilisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO) ...

The South African National Defence Force denied that a video of forces waving a white flag meant that the SANDF forces ...

Show more In the city of Goma, former child soldiers are being rehabilitated using capoeira, the Brazilian martial art. Since the start of the conflict in 1996 in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...