Yusuf Ali, now 34, struggles with his memories living in Mogadishu surrounded by dark reminders of his past.

ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. (WJHL) — The Tennessee Society of the American Revolution dedicated a monument to child soldiers who ...

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In July 2024, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada – leader of the “Mayitos” faction of the Sinaloa cartel – was kidnapped and handed over to US authorities.

Despite pressure from global bodies, including UNICEF, the terror outfit continues to indoctrinate and recruit minors to wage ...

A former child soldier from Sierra Leone who dodged deportation from Canada for a decade has been sentenced to five months in jail for returning to this country illegally.

YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – A Catholic official in the Democratic Republic of Congo says faith underpins his organization’s solidarity with children affected by conflict. “Wars provide opportunities for armed ...

ADDIS ABABA, May 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Listening to local communities is key to meeting a global goal of ending the use of children by armed groups by 2025, a top United Nations (U.N.) ...

BANDAJUMA, Sierra Leone (UNHCR) - At an age when they should be playing basketball with the other kids, two teenaged boys have chosen to sit it out on the bench, staring blankly ahead with troubled ...

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Nelson Kargbo was 11 when he was forced at gunpoint to become a child soldier for a brutal revolutionary insurgency in the west African country of Sierra Leone. He was injected daily with a mixture of ...