Up to 8,000 child soldiers in Sudan?

Reuters AlertNet – Up to 6,000 child soldiers recruited in Darfur – U.N.

UNICEF estimates there are a total of 8,000 child soldiers in Sudan, 6,000 in Darfur and the rest in southern Sudan — which ended a two-decade civil war with the north in 2005 — and the east of the country, the site of a low level insurgency against Khartoum.