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Current Feed ContentCHAD: UN mission set to train police for the eastThe training of 77 national police commanders for a special force to provide security in refugee camps, sites for displaced Chadians and towns in eastern Chad, is set to start on 14 April, according to a spokesman for the UN Mission in Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT). The commanders of the force, known as the DIS [Détachement intégré de sécurité], were initiated in a ceremony on 9 April at the Academy of the Gendarmerie in Chad’s capital N’djamena. MINURCAT said in a statement...AFRICA: Former child soldiers at risk of HIVChildren across Africa are emerging from conflicts in which they have served as soldiers or the 'wives' of rebel commanders and find themselves in a new, unfamiliar world. Usually poor and often without family, many resort to coping mechanisms that put them at risk of contracting HIV. "We have found that in places like Sierra Leone, large numbers of demobilised child soldiers are increasingly injecting illegal drugs," said Dr Josef Decosas, senior HIV policy adviser at Plan International, a... |
