Rebel forces also recruited child soldiers in their effort to oust the existing government. In northern Uganda, the abduction of children by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) continued unabated ...

A former Ugandan child solider who became a commander in a notorious rebel group has been jailed ... abducting thousands of children to use as soldiers or sex slaves, and for mutilating civilians.

The joy former child soldier Peter Oloya finds in sculpture ... the terrifying raids led by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group. "My grandmother showed me where clay is, what type of ...

A court in Finland has acquitted a rebel commander of rape, ritual murder and the recruitment of child soldiers during Liberia's civil war. The court said there was not enough proof to convict ...

In 1995 Grace's dad was killed by Joseph Kony's rebel group. A year later she was kidnapped by the group and forced to become a child soldier. This is the story of Grace's journey to find safety ...

Krispus Ayena is appointed defence lawyer in The Hague to defend the first former child soldier to be prosecuted ... at least 20,000 children abducted by rebel leader Kony’s Lord’s Resistance ...

The order covers almost 50,000 people, including former child soldiers and children born out of rapes and forced marriages. Ongwen was a ruthless rebel commander in the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).