Children still drawn into war in Sudan: UN
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Children are still being  abducted, killed, raped and pressed into warfare as soldiers by  armed groups in Sudan -- including the country's army --  despite peace deals in the south and west, the United Nations  reported on Tuesday.
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Stolen then brainwashed and forced to fight, children around the world are being turned into cold-blooded killing machines. Warlords target children as recruits because of their very vulnerability, treating them as no more than "cannon fodder," one child advocate says.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan  - Renewed fighting in Sudan's  Darfur region may have killed up to 105 civilians and displaced  more than 9,000 last week, the United Nations said Wednesday.
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Fighting between government and rebels troops in Darfur has decreased in the past month, but Arab militias still attack, rape and abduct villagers in the troubled region, the U.N. chief envoy to Sudan said Saturday.
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The United Nations said on Tuesday  Arab militias were still attacking villages in Sudan's Darfur  region despite government pledges, and Secretary-General Kofi  Annan said Khartoum must do much more to protect civilians.
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Raids by Sudanese forces and Arab militiamen have worsened a desperate situation in Darfur, rights groups say, but the United Nations said Khartoum was making serious efforts to keep pledges to curb the violence.
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Somalis in the capital Mogadishu are more scared than ever of being targeted by the country's warring parties, who are recruiting children to fight in the conflict, a U.N. envoy said on Friday.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said here Tuesday that in order to help protect population in Sudan, maintained pressure will be needed.
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A volatile mixture of oil and weapons is preventing the United Nations from taking punitive action against Sudan for continued atrocities in the province of Darfur, according to human rights activists and African experts.
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The UN children&#39;s agency Saturday called upon eastern and southern African nations, where more than eight million children live in dire poverty, to fight the boom in child trafficking on a war footing.
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Children are fighting in almost every major conflict, in both government and opposition forces, according to a report published today.
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AL-FASHER, Sudan  - Security has improved in camps in Sudan's violence-torn Darfur region, but displaced villagers still face attacks and abuse when they leave their camps, a UN team said Saturday as it completed a mission that could determine whether Sudan is hit with international sanctions.
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The United Nations sent a tough message to delegates at peace talks on the civil war in Sudan's western province of Darfur, warning them that the international community would not tolerate mounting ceasefire violations and attacks on civilians.
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Governments in at least 10 countries continue to use children to fight on the frontline, according to a new report. &quot;Scores of armed political groups in most regions of the world continued to recruit children
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Rival factions in Congo are forcibly recruiting hundreds of children and sending them to fight on the front lines of an escalating conflict in the east of the country, the United Nations said Friday.
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17 November 2004 - Members of the United Nations Security Council arrived today in Nairobi ahead of a two-day meeting devoted to the civil conflicts engulfing Sudan, including the crisis in the western region of Darfur and the long-running war in the
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Sudan stuck to its guns despite mounting international pressure to accept UN peacekeepers in war-torn Darfur where rebels said the latest government offensive has left at least seven people dead.