Sudan child soldiers struggle to give up guns, UN says
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Former child soldiers in southern Sudan are failing to settle back into their communities and instead are picking up guns to fight again, a U.N. official said on Thursday.
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The United Nations said Friday that foreign troops have crossed into Congo and called on outside forces to stop giving weapons and reinforcements to renegade soldiers battling army loyalists in Congo's eastern borderlands.
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The United Nations Security Council has been urged to act to end ethnic cleansing in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region. Human Rights Watch is calling for an arms embargo and travel sanctions on Sudan&#39;s officials for failing
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Children as young as five are learning a deep hatred as the power struggle between militias takes a disturbing new course
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UN Security Council ambassadors are heading to Africa in a bid to stop conflicts in Darfur and elsewhere in Sudan. They hope pressing for the end of a 21-year old civil war between Sudan and southern rebels
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The United Nations urged warring  groups in Darfur on Thursday to lay down their weapons during  the Islamic holy month of Ramadan to let relief workers operate  in Sudan's battered west.
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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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Amnesty International urged the U.N.  Security Council on Tuesday to impose a mandatory arms embargo  on Sudan to stop all parties to the conflict in Darfur  committing human rights abuses.
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NAIROBI, Kenya - The UN Security Council should impose sanctions on Sudan&#39;s government and enforce an arms embargo on pro-government Arab militias accused of ethnic cleansing in the country&#39;s Darfur region, a human rights group and aid agencies said
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- The UN Security Council should impose sanctions on Sudan's government and enforce an arms embargo on pro-government Arab militias accused of ethnic cleansing in the country's Darfur region, a human rights group and aid agencies said yesterday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Taliban fighters carrying machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades used children as human shields during a battle in southern Afghanistan yesterday, forcing US-led coalition soldiers to hold their fire for a time, the coalition said.
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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.
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KHARTOUM, Aug 18  - The United Nations said on Wednesday it was very concerned by Sudan&#39;s lack of practical progress in bringing security to Darfur, where more than a million people have fled their homes for fear of militia ...
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Fighting in eastern Congo this month  has led to a surge in child abductions by armed groups who  force minors to fight, carry ammunition or become their sex  slaves, Save the Children said on Monday.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Aug 19, 2004  -- As the month-end deadline nears for Sudan to disarm the Janjaweed militias in Darfur, the United Nations and Western powers debate how far to go to stop the killing ...
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EL FASHER, Sudan -- Yagoub Mustafa, 45, could not easily mimic the ``whoop whoop whoop, boom! boom! boom!" of two helicopter gunships that fired rockets into the huts in his Darfur village. He tried to make the noises, but they were not loud enough, or terrifying enough.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the Security Council in a report issued on Tuesday to impose sanctions on armies and groups that make use of child soldiers in at least a dozen countries.