Military use of children

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson attends as US President Donald Trump holds a bilateral meeting with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi alongside the ASEAN Summit in Manila, Philippines, Nov. 13, 2017.

State Department officials accuse Tillerson of violating US law on child soldiers

Conflict

A group of about a dozen US State Department officials have taken the unusual step of formally accusing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson of violating a federal law designed to stop foreign militaries from enlisting child soldiers, according to internal government documents reviewed by Reuters.

Author Ishmael Beah recounts his childhood as a boy soldier

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Viral Video “Kony 2012” sparks activism, criticism

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Sierra Leone mental health

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Joseph Kony: He’s Long Been Famous in Atiak

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US Trainers Helping Uganda Fight LRA Face Challenges

Global Politics

US has announced it will send trainers into Uganda to help the military there take on the Lord’s Resistance Army. But we’ve done this before and nothing changed.