Congo: the dirty war that turns kids into killers...

The current conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo is centred around the eastern town of Goma, but the effects are felt far beyond that. 

The way to the village of Mutwanga is a bone-crushing journey, plunging down from a high ridge along a dirt track.

In places, we had to stop the vehicle altogether to rebuild bridges of branches and planks across drainage ditches, where rainwater had tried to reclaim the track for the jungle again. More...

See also:

1. The Coltan War
2. The Congo's OTHER war and, once again, children are its main victims...
3. Sri Lanka: enlistement of child soldiers continues
4. The Children of Iraq...
5. The first victim of a child-soldier...