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Child Soldiers of Central Africa
July 09, 2012 3:29 PM
Large numbers of child soldiers are being used in armed conflicts in Uganda, CAR, Chad, DRC, Somalia and Sudan.
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A Save the Children report counted 33 armed conflicts, many of them civil wars, where children have been fighting. Save the Children is promoting a U.N. pact that would raise the minimum recruitment age to 17.
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A Chadian army child soldier is seen in Am Timan, Chad. Chad pledged in May of 2007 to work to demobilize hundreds of child soldiers fighting in the ranks of the government army and rebel groups across conflict-torn central Africa.
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Child soldiers take a rest as they wait for instructions in an ethnic Hema militia camp near Bunia in the Democratic Republic of Congo, June, 2003.
Child Soldiers of Central Africa
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