Life is tough in South Sudan at the best of times, and now, in the midst of yet another long and destructive civil war, is one of the worst. For many child soldiers, joining a militia is simply a ...

Life in Lulu scriptwriter Kululu draws on his own experience as a child soldier and his love of storytelling to help children in South Sudan Kululu Elgebana was born in 1984 in Sudan, during ...

The use of child soldiers is not new to Africa. There are children bearing arms in South Sudan, Somalia, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Nigeria. Charles ...

We provide South Sudan’s children with access to education, health care and nutrition support, as well as families with food security and livelihoods assistance. Our child protection programs support ...

A South Sudanese former child soldier who now performs comedy says ... Atem jokes about a common occurrence in South Sudan: getting stopped on the road: "We came with a car, and the guy stopped ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. The United Nations has secured a pledge for the release of about 3,000 child soldiers in South Sudan, in what it called ...

A former child soldier has urged the world to do more to help children devastated by Sudan's brutal civil war, telling AFP on Thursday that "we can't just leave them to it".

If they are there within the State, I have directed the Minister of Local Government to do an assessment and relocate the soldiers and leave schools empty for its purpose for children to continue with ...