Al-Shabaab deploying child soldiers in Mozambique, says HRW
Rwanda was the first country to send 1,000 troops to Mozambique, Botswana followed with a contingent of 296 while South Africa deployed 1,500 soldiers. PHOTO | FILE
Human Rights Watch (HRW) Wednesday said that children are being trained and deployed to fight against government forces in northern Mozambique.
The lobby group revealed that Al-Shabaab, the Islamic State (ISIS)-linked armed group in northern Mozambique, has been kidnapping boys and sending them to war in violation of the international prohibition on the use of child soldiers.
