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Mike Pompeo Keeps Saudis Off US Child Soldiers List, Overruling Experts
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has blocked the inclusion of Saudi Arabia on a US list of countries that recruit child soldiers, dismissing his experts' findings that a Saudi-led coalition has been using under-age fighters in Yemen's civil war, according to four people familiar with the matter.
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They Were Rescued From War. Now South Sudan's Child Soldiers Are Going Back.
Outside, the young men with guns were playing dominoes and drinking tea. Babacho Mama could hear them through the sheet-metal walls of his room.
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Myanmar Releases Nearly 70 More Child Soldiers: Reports
Myanmar's military released 67 child soldiers on Friday, its first discharge this year as part of a slow process to end decades of forced recruitment of underage fighters that began under the former junta.
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Sudan Rebels Pledge To End Use Of Child Soldiers
A prominent Sudanese rebel group on Wednesday signed a deal with the United Nations to end the recruitment and use of child soldiers in its ranks.
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'I Was Forced To Kill My Best Friend', Former Child Soldier Says
It was during an ordinary game of soccer when Michel Chikwanine was abducted at age five by rebel soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo and recruited into the army.
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1 In 5 Suicide Bombers Used By Boko Haram Is Child, Half Of Them Girls: UN
Nearly one in five suicide bombers used by the terror group Boko Haram is a child with more than half of them being girls, according to a UN report.
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More Than 350 Child Soldiers Released by Central Africa Armed Groups: UNICEF
Armed groups in strife-torn Central African Republic released 350 child soldiers Thursday, honouring a deal signed with UNICEF, the United Nations children's agency said.
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Young Suicide Bomber Kills 7 in Nigeria
A girl thought to be as young as seven killed herself and seven others in a suicide bombing in northeast Nigeria on Sunday as President Goodluck Jonathan conceded his government had initially underrated the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram.
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Myanmar Frees Dozens More Child Soldiers From Army: United Nations
Myanmar's army on Thursday released 109 children and young people from its armed forces, the United Nations said, commending the country's "accelerated" efforts to end the use of child soldiers.
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Liberia's Lost Generation of Child Soldiers Comes of Age
Abdul Sesay used to carry an AK-47 in jailed Liberian warlord Charles Taylor's notorious "Demon Forces" militia, which tortured, killed and raped its way through the country's second civil war.
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Colombia's Child Soldiers Pay Heavy Price
At age 10, Maria was forced to trade a doll for an assault rifle.
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40 years in jail for Al-Qaida 'child soldier'
Afghan Canadian Omar Khadr, the only child soldier and last western prisoner held at Guantanamo, has been sentenced to 40 years in jail for killing a US medic in Afghanistan in 2002.Twenty-four-year-old Khadr, whose father was a close aide of Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden, was 15 when he was arrested in a gunbattle with the US forces in Afghanista...
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Children carry guns for a US ally, Somalia
Child soldiers are deployed across the globe, but according to the United Nations, the Somali government is among the "most persistent violators" of sending children into war, finding itself on a list with notorious rebel groups like the Lord's Resistance Army.
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Mike Pompeo Keeps Saudis Off US Child Soldiers List, Overruling Experts
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has blocked the inclusion of Saudi Arabia on a US list of countries that recruit child soldiers, dismissing his experts' findings that a Saudi-led coalition has been using under-age fighters in Yemen's civil war, according to four people familiar with the matter.
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They Were Rescued From War. Now South Sudan's Child Soldiers Are Going Back.
Outside, the young men with guns were playing dominoes and drinking tea. Babacho Mama could hear them through the sheet-metal walls of his room.
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Myanmar Releases Nearly 70 More Child Soldiers: Reports
Myanmar's military released 67 child soldiers on Friday, its first discharge this year as part of a slow process to end decades of forced recruitment of underage fighters that began under the former junta.
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Sudan Rebels Pledge To End Use Of Child Soldiers
A prominent Sudanese rebel group on Wednesday signed a deal with the United Nations to end the recruitment and use of child soldiers in its ranks.
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'I Was Forced To Kill My Best Friend', Former Child Soldier Says
It was during an ordinary game of soccer when Michel Chikwanine was abducted at age five by rebel soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo and recruited into the army.
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1 In 5 Suicide Bombers Used By Boko Haram Is Child, Half Of Them Girls: UN
Nearly one in five suicide bombers used by the terror group Boko Haram is a child with more than half of them being girls, according to a UN report.
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More Than 350 Child Soldiers Released by Central Africa Armed Groups: UNICEF
Armed groups in strife-torn Central African Republic released 350 child soldiers Thursday, honouring a deal signed with UNICEF, the United Nations children's agency said.
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Young Suicide Bomber Kills 7 in Nigeria
A girl thought to be as young as seven killed herself and seven others in a suicide bombing in northeast Nigeria on Sunday as President Goodluck Jonathan conceded his government had initially underrated the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram.
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Myanmar Frees Dozens More Child Soldiers From Army: United Nations
Myanmar's army on Thursday released 109 children and young people from its armed forces, the United Nations said, commending the country's "accelerated" efforts to end the use of child soldiers.
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Liberia's Lost Generation of Child Soldiers Comes of Age
Abdul Sesay used to carry an AK-47 in jailed Liberian warlord Charles Taylor's notorious "Demon Forces" militia, which tortured, killed and raped its way through the country's second civil war.
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Colombia's Child Soldiers Pay Heavy Price
At age 10, Maria was forced to trade a doll for an assault rifle.
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40 years in jail for Al-Qaida 'child soldier'
Afghan Canadian Omar Khadr, the only child soldier and last western prisoner held at Guantanamo, has been sentenced to 40 years in jail for killing a US medic in Afghanistan in 2002.Twenty-four-year-old Khadr, whose father was a close aide of Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden, was 15 when he was arrested in a gunbattle with the US forces in Afghanista...
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Children carry guns for a US ally, Somalia
Child soldiers are deployed across the globe, but according to the United Nations, the Somali government is among the "most persistent violators" of sending children into war, finding itself on a list with notorious rebel groups like the Lord's Resistance Army.
