A former child soldier holds a gun as they participate in a child soldiers' release ceremony, outside Yambio, South Sudan, August 7, 2018. PHOTO | REUTERS
The African Union’s top security organ says warring parties in conflicts across the continent are still using child soldiers in spite of it being illegal under both its instruments and those of the United Nations.
South Sudan was singled out as the country with the majority of child soldiers, even though the ongoing disarmament, demobilisation, and reintegration (DDR) programme, under the September 2018 peace agreement, has also seen thousands of child soldiers rescued from the warfront.
