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  • Somali schoolboys take a break from class in Dhobley, a town under the control by Kenyan military and Somali government forces. Many children in Somalia are uneducated and are forced to join armed groups such as al-Shabab. (Associated Press)

    Somalia's children schooled in guns

    Adan Abdi worries that the students in his class show too little interest in education.


  • Inam, a 15-year-old drug addict, gang leader and ex-con with police officers on his payroll, sheds a tear when talking about his recent AIDS diagnosis.

    Saving Pakistan street children from Taliban's grasp

    The boy was 2 when his mother dumped him on the streets and 4 when he spent his first night in a tiny prison cell, being sexually assaulted by an older inmate.


  • Briefly: Africa

    An increasing number of children are being caught in attacks and crossfire across south and central Somalia, the U.N.'s children agency said Tuesday, as a land mine exploded at the world's largest refugee camp in neighboring Kenya, wounding two people.


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