A boy soldier waits at the Kpandroma transit center. The various warring factions of the country have used children as fighters, porters, cooks, spies and sex slaves.

Congo's Child Soldiers

Photographer Cedric Gerbehaye documents a transit center in Ituri District, where the UN and the government of Congo struggle to re-integrate former militia members back into society

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