Parents take caution as kidnapping in Uganda rise
In northern Uganda, parents send their sons and daughters to sleep in the streets in an effort to protect them from rebel forces who invade homes to kidnap small children. Since 1986, the Lord's Resistance Army has kidnapped more than 20,000 children to use as soldiers, UNICEF reports. Hear Jessie Graham.
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