Columbia: armed groups stepping up child recruitment

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The United Nations says that more children and teenagers are being forcibly recruited by armed groups in Colombia than before the signing of the peace deal with the FARC rebels in 2016. Authorities in Australia have introduced a new koala app to help track threatened marsupials and protect them from cars. The Somali government has asked the African Union to investigate the destruction of mobile phone masts in southern Somalia where Kenyan troops are deployed in the fight against Islamist militants.