Photographer Cedric Gerbehaye documents a transit center in Ituri District, where the UN and the government of Congo struggle to re-integrate former militia members back into society A boy soldier ...

Lupe Fiasco has one of the more storied journeys in Hip-Hop, starting off in Chicago as an upstart MC to becoming one of the genre’s most respected lyricists. In a new interview, Lupe Fiasco shared ...

Ishmael Beah defends his memoir and goes home to Sierra Leone. Aug. 5, 2008 — -- Ishmael Beah wears the scars of Sierra Leone's civil war as his own. In what was once the poorest country on earth ...

BOGÓTA, Colombia, April 20 (UNHCR) - Elisa* was born and grew up in a culture of violence, and in the end it left her confined to a wheelchair yet lucky to be alive. But the former child soldier is ...

Colombian soldiers stand in formation as war material seized from a dissident group of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is displayed in Cucuta [File: Carlos Eduardo Ramirez/Reuters] ...

What was once a relatively safe Nordic nation is now grappling with the harrowing reality of "child soldiers" within its own ...

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Los Angeles Times photographer Francine Orr has covered Africa and other world hot spots for years. In her travels, she's seen first-hand the faces and heard the voices of child soldiers caught up in ...

A Russian soldier has purportedly warned that Moscow is marching "children" to their deaths by sending them to the front lines of the Ukraine war without ammunition. The General Staff of the Armed ...

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On 9 July 2011, as I watched the flag of South Sudan rise for the first time, a light came on inside me. In that moment, all of the misfortunes of my childhood took on a powerful inspirational meaning ...

The last time Marta saw her 14-year-old son was three months ago – he was wearing rebel army fatigues and holding a rifle as he marched down the street with the other child soldiers. She ran to the ...