Former child soldiers in Congo face tough return to civilian life
Some of the Democratic Republic of Congo's former child soldiers have become traders, hairdressers and tailors, but many struggle to recover a normal life.
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Some of the Democratic Republic of Congo's former child soldiers have become traders, hairdressers and tailors, but many struggle to recover a normal life.
Many of the former child combatants are overwhelmed by the horrors they have witnessed in a part of the country that has been ravaged by violence for more than 25 years
The number of child soldiers in the DRC is hard to estimate, although the tally runs into the thousands.
Some of the DR Congo's former child soldiers have become traders, hairdressers and tailors, but many struggle to recover a normal life.
Some of the DR Congo's former child soldiers have become traders, hairdressers and tailors, but many struggle to recover a normal life.