Conscription Of Children
Chad vows to absolve child soldiers who are a part of government army and rebel groups across the conflict-torn central African country.
President Idriss Deby’s government made the commitment in an agreement signed with the United Nations...
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Graca Machel, a Mozambican human rights campaigner and the country’s former first lady, appealed to schools Saturday to take more action to prevent children being...
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The power-sharing being brokered in Zimbabwe is under threat after Robert Mugabe allocated control of three major arms of the government to his ruling Zanu-PF party.
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A spokesman for the group of pirates holding an arms-laden tanker off the coast of Somalia has threatened to blow up the ship in three days if no ransom is paid.
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Finally, the nations are actually thinking of combating the menace, which leads to conscription of children. Thus, some 58 countries have signed a ‘Paris...
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