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Podcast: The Cosmopolitan
Episode: Child soldiers and capoeira
Description: Podcast: The Documentary Podcast (LS 66 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: Child soldiers and capoeiraPub date: 2025-01-08Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn the city of Goma, former child soldiers are being rehabilitated using capoeira, the Brazilian martial art. Since the start of the conflict in 1996 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, child soldiers have been recruited to fight. After they are demobilised from armed groups, many suffer from mental health disorders like anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. The demobilised child soldiers are...