The war finally ended in 2002, but what remained was an open, urgent question: What would happen with these children? No one knew what the lives of former child soldiers might look ... “You’d see them ...

Research on child soldiers in 1998 revealed that an estimated 300,000 children or more under the age of eighteen were fighting in more than thirty armed conflicts around the world. Although most ...

“You have good soldiers and bad soldiers. Bad soldiers, when they go ... child soldier Victor. This can help others to avoid making the same mistakes. “They can learn out of my experience ...

And it’s often been children doing the fighting. Thousands have been recruited as child soldiers over the years -- an issue the United Nations called “endemic” in 2013. Balezi Bagunda wants ...

In the city of Goma, Congolese journalist Ruth Omar looks at how former child soldiers are being rehabilitated using capoeira, the Brazilian martial art. Show more In the city of Goma, Congolese ...