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A child stands by a fire lit for heat in the courtyard of a home after fleeing fighting between ISIS and Iraqi security forces in Tall Kaysumah, west of Mosul, Iraq, Saturday 4 March 2017. Iraqi security forces gathered children and their families in the courtyard prior to taking them to an identification centre by truck. From there, they would be taken to a camp for internally displaced people.

Over 224,298 persons are still internally displaced from Mosul and surrounding areas since the military operations began on 17 October 2016, according to a UNHCR update from 14 March 2017. Operations to retake west Mosul began on 19 February and significant population movements started on 25 February, with around 5,000 persons received in camps daily. UNICEF reported on 3 March 2017 that some 15,000 children had fled the western section of Iraq’s Mosul city in the previous week, where fighting between the Government forces and ISIS is intensifying by the day.

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On 17 April 2018 in Yambio, South Sudan, [NAME CHANGED] Nawai, 15 yrs, stands during a ceremony to release children from the ranks of armed groups and start a process of reintegration. Nawai’s parents fled to the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2016 when the conflict became brutally violence. On that day, Nawai was walking home on the side of the road with her two sisters, when she was surrounded by armed men and abducted. “They were waiting for us to come back so they could take us,” she says.  They took her to a nearby base with her sisters, and forced her to work for them. After a few days, they returned her youngest sister to the village, as she would not stop crying. For two years she shared a small room with other girls in the group, and was forced to cook, clean, fetch water for the armed men. “One time I was asked to collect water, and when I came back, they [the armed group] said I took too long,” she says. “They threatened to beat me.” Now she has been released from the armed group, she wants to return to school. English is her favorite subject, and she wants to work very hard so one day she can be a Commissioner. Nawai does not know if she will see her parents again.

More than 200 children were released by armed groups in South Sudan on Tuesday 18 April 2018. This was the second release of children in a series, supported by UNICEF, that will see almost 1,000 children released from the ranks of armed groups in the coming months. The 207 children released (112 boys, 95 girls), were from the ranks of the South Sudan National Liberation Movement (SSNLM) - which in 2016 signed a peace agreement with the Government and is now integrating its ranks into the national army - and from the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-In Opposition (SPLA-IO). An upsurge of fighting in July 2016 stalled the original plans to release children, but momentum is now building for further releases in the future. This latest release of a further 207 children continues t

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