Cameroon Hosts Meeting on Eradicating Child Soldiers

Leveraging innovation and research to eradicate the Child Soldier phenomenon in Cameroon

© MINJEC A crucial step toward protecting vulnerable youth was taken on June 3, 2026 as Professor Abdelkader Filali, President and CEO of the International Research Center on the Prevention of Child Soldiers - CIRPES, met with Cameroon's Minister of Youth and Civic Education, Mounouna Foutsou. During the meeting, Professor Filali presented a sobering global overview of the child soldier crisis across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, identifying poverty, armed conflict, social exclusion, and...

By Louisa KINYUY