THOUSANDS of children in South Sudan have been deliberately killed or abducted to fight in the nearly eight month-long conflict.
The African Union (AU) said the present conflict can be characterised as nothing less than a war on the children of South Sudan, most of whom are of school-going age, said Julia Sloth-Nielsen, heading the AU committee investigating child rights in the young nation.
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