News Roundup – 13-14 February 2014
UN experts find ‘serious damage’ by armed extremists to cultural sites in Gao (Mali)
IRIN news: Who are the anti-balaka of CAR?
Chad’s role behind the scenes in the Central African Republic
Chasing ghosts in the Central African Republic
Time to rekindle Timbuktu’s flame
Warlord Kony benefits from chaos in central Africa
In Kony’s Shadow: Stories of LRA survivors
UN: Congo armed groups wielding machetes reportedly execute 70
UN to boost troops in DRC’s troubled Katanga Province
Salamat Omda Warns of Renewed Tribal Violence in Darfur
Sudan and rebels to hold first peace talks in almost a year
Valerie Amos: UN ‘must stop flagrant violation of humanitarian law in Syria’
A selection of the many news items on child soldiers, on the occasion of the International Day Against the Use of Child Soldiers (which was 12 February):
Don’t Forget Child Soldiers – They Are Still on the Front Line
Kony’s child soldiers: ‘When you kill for the first time, you change’
Annyssa Bellal
Katharine Fortin
Ezequiel Heffes
Rogier Bartels
Sam Jackson