(UN News) – Militants in South Sudan have handed over to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) a final group of 283 children in what the agency described as “a small piece of good news in what is otherwise a terrible situation for children in other parts of [the country],” where many boys and girls have been abducted and forcibly recruited as child soldiers. The release of 282 boys and one girl by the so-called ‘Cobra Faction’ took place in Labrab, a village in a remote corner of Jonglei state in South Sudan, bringing to 1,757 the number of children who have been released by the militant group this year.
