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Reintegrating child soldiers in Pibor
Greater Pibor leaders try to reintegrate former child soldiers into their communities with the help of aid agencies, whilst others are still fighting.
25.04.2024 | Pibor
Head of UNMISS and SRSG, Ellen Margrethe Loej, talks to a police officer shortly after she arrived in Pibor for talks with the area’s leader David Yau Yau, April 28, 2015.
Recently, the UN children’s agency, UNICEF announced the release of another 280 children, marking the demobilisation of the last batch of nearly 1,500 child soldiers who had been fighting for the South Sudan Democratic Army-Cobra Faction.
But the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General in South Sudan, Ellen Margrethe Loej is calling on David Yau, the former Cobra Faction rebel leader now Chief Administrator of Greater Pibor — to help release 500 other child soldiers still held by the Cobra Faction.
Charlton Doki spoke to some of the child soldiers and filed this report for The Niles:
