After the peace agreement reached in south sudan in 2005, and the policies designed to prevent child recruitment in armed conflict, south sudan is nowadays the country in africa with the biggest number of children involved in conflict, recruiting children as young as 5 on both sides of it (the paramilitary groups as well as the opposition and rebel groups). how have the policies of children reintegration and the measures applied to prevent and criminalise child recruitment failed at such a big scale?