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Child Soldier's Fight for Her Daughter

Yordanos Haile-Michael returned to Eritrea after 17 years to find her daughter

Eritrean Yordanos Haile-Michael was taken as a child soldier when she was just five. At the age of 15 she gave birth to her daughter after being raped. She then took an agonising decision: having to hand over her newborn daughter to the family of the man who raped her.

Image: Yordanos Haile-Michael
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