Al Jazeera. Ex-Ugandan child soldier: I was abducted by LRA at 10, forced to fight for 13 years before escaping. Posted: August 13, 2024 | Last updated: May 14, 2025 ...

Uganda: Child Soldiers Fight for Fresh Start. Published May 15, 2007 at 8:00 PM EDT Updated Mar 13, 2010 at 7:50 PM EST. By Andrew Ehrenkranz . Newsweek Is A Trust Project Member.

Child Soldiers Fight Forgotten War in Uganda A report by Save the Children singles out northern Uganda as a center of childhood conscription by the Lord's ... or LRA, is also a constant threat.

In October 2024, Thomas Kwoyelo - another former child soldier who later became a rebel commander under Kony - was sentenced by a court in Uganda to 40 years in prison for his role in the LRA's ...

The Saturday event will decry child soldiers in Uganda caught in the conflict between the government and the Lord’s Resistance Army. On Saturday evening, April 25, the Invisible Children are hosting a ...

Child soldiers have to fight, kill and often walk to their deaths (Getty Images) George relates the killings along the way. He is anxious he is not asked to kill people by hand – that is, with a ...

Some 66,000 of the children he abducted went on to become soldiers, according to some accounts. LRA fighting resulted in the displacement and mutilation of thousands of civilians, according to ...

It has displaced some 2.5 million people across Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A United Nations estimate found that the LRA was responsible ...

Relief workers have condemned the army’s use of helicopter gunships to fight LRA units because women and children are killed along with the rebel soldiers. The Ugandan Army defends the practice.

Child Soldiers Fight Forgotten War in Uganda By David McGuffin. Published May 11, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT ... McGUFFIN: The LRA also kidnaps children to fight and serve as sex slaves.