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Demobilised child soldiers missing

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    OLS agencies were investigating the disappearance of approximately 100 demobilised child soldiers who had been cared for in a transit camp in western Upper Nile, Annan said in the report. They went missing following fighting in the area in May-June. “It is feared that the missing children may have been recruited into the various armies and militias,” he stated. About 350 out of 500 child soldiers registered in the first three months of 1999 were demobilised, the report said, adding that over 50 had already been reunited with their families.

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