despite numerous public pledges by the government to desist from the use of child soldiers. In August 1998 a rebel uprising against the Kabila government in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

Dorcas Kabongo, 16, is one of 20,000 child soldiers – many of them girls –snatched from their families by rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s civil conflict and forced to go ...

the Democratic Republic of Congo has been mired in armed conflict. And it’s often been children doing the fighting. Thousands have been recruited as child soldiers over the years -- an issue the ...

Warlords soldiers and child laborers all toil over a mineral ... device Its also tied to the deaths of over 5 million people in Congo since 1990 ...