Despite the TFG’s public commitments to end the recruitment and use of children as soldiers (see below), the practice continued during the SEMG’s mandate, with the UN and rights groups documenting recruitment in IDP camps, and incidents of under-age adolescents being sent by the TFG to Uganda for military training before being screened and sent back by the EU training mission, which conducts the only screening specifically focused on the age of the recruits.[764]
Despite the TFG’s public commitments to end the recruitment and use of children as soldiers (see below), the practice continued during the SEMG’s mandate, with the UN and rights groups documenting recruitment in IDP camps, and incidents of under-age adolescents being sent by the TFG to Uganda for military training before being screened and sent back by the EU training mission, which conducts the only screening specifically focused on the age of the recruits.[764]