Children caught up in Uganda's vicious war
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BARR REFUGEE CAMP, Uganda  - Walter Emodo shudders as he recalls the day Ugandan rebels attacked his village two years ago, killing his younger brother and changing his formerly peaceful childhood forever.
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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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When Kenneth Banya heard the voices of his former rebel colleagues on the radio calling for an end to Uganda&#39;s 18-year civil war, he knew it was time to surrender.
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ORAPWOYO, Uganda  - Nine years ago, Santonino Otok fled his home in the green fields of northern Uganda for a refugee camp, fearing attack by marauding rebels.
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GULU, Uganda  - Silver haired and dressed in a  smart blue suit and tie, Kenneth Banya sips tea in the heart of  the community he took part in terrorizing for almost two  decades.
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Carol Bellamy has witnessed her share of horrors as head of the United Nations children's agency for the past 10 years, from traumatized Iraqi children to starving Sudanese babies to frightened tsunami orphans. Through it all, she says, she's tried to push forward.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The room was carpeted and cozy, warm from the wood stove and filled with the chatter of children. But the tales their mothers and older sisters told recently, speaking hesitantly even in the safety of a guarded private shelter, were bone-chilling.
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In a grim marker of the longevity of the Iraq war, children too young to remember losing a parent in action are growing up.
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Governments are undermining progress in ending the use of children as soldiers. That is the conclusion of a coalition of the world&#39;s leading human-rights organizations.
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Displaced Sudanese women and children ride their donkeys at a camp in Darfur. Picture:Reuters. Children are being targeted in the latest abuses in Darfur, writes Pamela Bone in Addis Ababa.
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KINSHASA, Congo Â Boys and girls are being recruited in record numbers to act as soldiers, spies and sex slaves in Congo and children have been spotted marching in formation in the war-wracked east of the country over the past week, international charity Save the Children said Monday.
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More than half the world&#39;s children are suffering extreme effects of poverty, war and HIV/Aids, denying them a healthy and safe childhood, according to a report published today.
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The Christian Science Monitor - As two hulking white UN helicopters recently descended on this small remote town in eastern Congo's Ituri Province, hundreds of schoolchildren fled their classrooms to catch a glimpse of the spectacle.
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Alarming numbers of young children are dying in Angola four years after the southern African country's long-running civil war ended, a report by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has said.
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Ten of 139 girls abducted eight years ago by rebels in Uganda have escaped in recent months and will return to their boarding school after years in captivity.
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LAINE CAMP, Guinea  - The four young siblings weep  as they leave their foster home to make the short trip back to  their war shattered homeland of Liberia.
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Once again, Lebanon's children are seeing what they shouldn't &#151; visions of death and destruction that may scar them for life. And those are the survivors.