The ICC convicts one rebel chief for pushing children into war, but another is still on the run. We look at how a viral video just might help bring Ugandan Joseph Kony to justice. Next, one year after the brutal conflict in Ivory Coast, investigators head to Duékoué in search of mass graves. Finally, violence in northern Mali is forcing more and more Westerners to flee- we meet the the last remaining Frenchman in Timbuktu.
This month of August marked a crucial step in the US calendar for withdrawal from the country. Over the past week, the number of American troops dropped below 50.000. And on August 31st, the US officially ends its combat mission. The next goal will be to pull out completely by the end of 2011. Today we look at this drawdown in more detail, and take stock of the situation in Iraq at this sensitive time.
Since its victory over the Tamil Tigers, the image of Sri Lanka the Army wants the world to see is a country at peace on the path to reconciliation. France 24 reports on a military-run education centre that houses a hundred former child soldiers.
In this edition: as South Africa elects a new president, the gap between rich and poor continues to grow in Johannesburg; the difficult reintegration of child soldiers in Burundi; and a mobile clinic in the Kenyan bush funded by opera.
Having testified that he was recruited as a child soldier, the first witness at the ICC retracts evidence.Thomas Lubanga, a Congolese militia warlord, is on trial for recruiting hundreds of children to fight in the DR Congo's civil war.
A UN report named an advisor to Rwandan President Paul Kagame and a member of the Congolese opposition as key financiers of Tutsi rebel troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has long accused Rwanda of backing the rebels.
Rwandan officials say a UN report accusing the country of supporting Tutsi rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo and of being complicit in the recruitment of child soldiers is inaccurate and amounts to a "vendetta."
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