For example, in the DRC, the U.N. Group of Experts on the DRC have been warning that child recruitment and use had reached alarming levels by early 2024 due to the escalation of the conflict in ...

Nevertheless, over the course of the previous year, the pair had fashioned themselves into two of the least likely soldiers ...

A 2017 report by War Child UK and War Child Holland indicate that of 300,000 child soldiers active in armed conflict, 40 percent were in the DRC.

This translates to a horrifying reality – a child was raped every half an hour.” These numbers are said to be the tip of the iceberg, with stigma, fear, and insecurity meaning many cases go ...

UNICEF – the United Nations children’s agency – has also documented the recruitment of child soldiers in record numbers, with more than 1,500 used in armed conflict during the first half of 2022, ...

The first group of South African National Defence Force soldiers who were deployed to the Democratic Republic of Congo is expected to arrive back on home soil this week.

The first group of South African soldiers deployed to the Democratic Republic of Congo, arrive back in the country today. South Africa sent around one thousand five hundred troops to the DRC as ...

Candles were lit and flowers placed next to the photographs of the soldiers in the vigil which took place on Friday.

UN accuses M23 of committing 'summary executions' of children in DRC The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has summarily executed children in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations ...

Conflict and human rights violations are widespread in the DRC. World Vision has called the decades-long conflict in the country “ one of the worst child protection crises in the world ”.

‘Child was raped every half an hour’ in two months in eastern DR Congo: UN Up to 45 percent of nearly 10,000 sexual violence cases reported in DRC’s conflict zone in January and February ...

Candles were lit and flowers placed next to the photographs of the soldiers in the vigil which took place on Friday.