U.S. Urges Sudan Rebels to Stop Recruiting Children and Refugees

Sudanese rebels must stop recruiting children and keep their fighters out of a refugee camp in South Sudan, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration Anne Richard said.

U.S. officials in Washington met with leaders of the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North after receiving reports in September that the group was recruiting in refugee camps inside South Sudan where the United Nations says more than 175,000 people have fled violence in Sudan.