Boy soldier condemned to death in DR Congo

A thirteen-year-old soldier has been condemned to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo after killing a Red Cross volunteer at a football match in the capital, Kinshasa.

The killing happened after the Red Cross football team told the boy to leave the field.

He was sentenced hours later by a military tribunal which held a pitch-side hearing.

Prosecutors had called for life imprisonment, saying the army should exercise more control over young recruits.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service