(Left: Former child soldiers board a helicopter flight of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for repatriation to undisclosed areas of the country ...

Child soldiers are still being used in the Democratic Republic of Congo, despite promises to stop recruiting them.

Congo’s Child Soldiers; Congo’s Child Soldiers. 1 minute read. By TIME. October 19, 2007 12:00 AM EDT. ... Child soldiers from Karim's FNI wait at Kpandroma the day after their demobilization.

Aid groups in Congo have secured the release of more than 200 child soldiers from militia fighters who forcibly recruited them in the east of the country, the U.N. children's agency said Saturday.

KIWANJA, Congo – Some beat their heads against the wall until doctors inject them with tranquilizers. Others remain mute for days, their eyes darting around like frightened animals. In recent… ...

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A Congolese boy and former rebel soldier is pictured at a center for demobilized child soldier in Rutshuru, in the North Kivu province in Democratic Republic of Congo, on January 26, 2006.

About four months ago, at about midnight, 16-year-old Wetemwami crept out of the military camp that had been his home for three years.

KINSHASA, Congo — Boys and girls are being recruited in record numbers to act as soldiers, spies and sex slaves in Congo and children have been spotted marching in formation ...

The International Criminal Court convicted a Congolese warlord on Wednesday of using child soldiers, a verdict hailed as a legal landmark in the fight against impunity for the world's most serious ...

Dr. Whitman said the institute works with both Rwanda and Congo on child-soldier issues and has an office in Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, and a partnership with Congo’s military (known as FARDC).

In recent weeks, hundreds of child soldiers in eastern Congo's catastrophic war have returned home, sometimes to the same villages where they killed and pillaged. IE 11 is not supported.