UN finds Congo child soldiers

The United Nations says it's discovered more than one-hundred-and-sixty child soldiers from the Democratic Republic of Congo at a training camp in Uganda.

It said the youngsters, aged between nine and seventeen, would be taken into UN care, and eventually sent home.

They were among a group of nearly seven-hundred people who had been flown from the Congolese border town of Bunia for military training in Uganda.

Earlier, Uganda said it would withdraw more than one-thousand troops from Congo -- because of the positive attitude to peace shown by its new leader, Joseph Kabila.

And another of the countries with troops fighting in the Congo civil war -- Rwanda -- has told the United Nations it, too, will start pulling them back at the end of this month.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service