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

(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 ...

Since 2003, tens of thousands of children have been removed from warring militias in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Boys and girls return from the bush traumatized, isolated, uneducated and too ...

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.

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.

Local officials say a Congolese soldier has shot and killed two of his colleagues while a third died of critical injuries in ...

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… ...

Congo warlord convicted of using child soldiers. March 14, 2012 / 7:53 ... Judges at a war crimes tribunal convicted a Congolese warlord Wednesday of snatching children from the street and ...

Thomas Lubanga, the Congolese warlord convicted of using child soldiers and turning them into killers, was sentenced Tuesday to 14 years.

Congolese former militia leader Thomas Lubanga pleaded not guilty to using child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo's 1998-2003 civil war, as the International Criminal Court's historic ...

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 ...