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Child Soldier Goons Are Being Undone By Video Games

The thugs in charge of recruiting kids for use in bloody African wars are finding their efforts are being hampered in Somalia. Not through the durect actions of the government or the UN, but because kids now have enough things to do in their spare time to keep them off the streets.


January 30, 2010
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Games Ban Might Encourage Somali Teens To Shoot Real Guns

Somalia has a ton of problems, but at least it does have cybercafes where kids can enjoy playing games. But a fun-killing Islamist group has ordered them shut down in a ban on games in territories under its control.