Report from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Rey says he’s 11, but he looks eight. He has long eyelashes and a leg in a cast. Like hundreds of other boys playing football outside, he wears an Arsenal jersey.
He’s in a transit centre for former child soldiers in Goma, a lakefront city in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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