82 Child Soldiers Rescued In The Democratic Republic Of Congo

- Scores of child soldiers, some of them as young as eight years old, have been rescued from an armed group in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the U.N. mission in the African nation said.
The 82 children, 13 of them girls, were recovered since Sunday from the Mayi Mayi Bakata Katanga armed group in the southeastern Katanga province, MONUSCO said Friday in a statement.
The children, aged up to 17 years, had reportedly been recruited by the armed group within the past six months, it said.
Forty of them have been reunited with their parents.
The others are being cared for until they can be returned home, the statement said.
CNN