Looters and armed gangs are reported to be still roaming the streets of Bangui.
Lareese says that the crossfire of U.N. troops and armed gangs is claiming more victims every day.
The Syrian regime insists it is battling foreign-backed terrorists and armed gangs.
In the Central African Republic, the agency reports that armed gangs terrorize farms and communities, kidnapping children and holding them for ransom.
CNN: Kids' lives are nightmares in unstable nations, UNICEF reports
In many ways the new types of heavily armed gangs that have now installed themselves in several of the favelas of Sao Paulo and also Rio are not part of the DNA of the favela.
The UK supply chain for alcohol is supposed to be tightly regulated, but the BBC has found armed gangs and even paramilitaries have muscled into the duty fraud market, which, according to HMRC, is now run by organised criminals.
BBC: Calling time on alcohol smuggling and drinks duty fraud
So the new government will face colossal challenges: the huge numbers of frustrated, unemployed Iraqi youths are a willing pool of recruits, not just for insurgent groups but also for the armed gangs and criminal underworld that hold sway in many parts of the country.
He notes that children as young as six ape the ways of well-armed youth gangs.
The Syrian government insists it is pursuing "armed terrorist gangs".
Russian diplomats have made scant efforts to meet with Syrian opposition figures and Moscow seems to accept Damascus' portrayal of the opposition as a group of armed criminal gangs, according to a Western official familiar with the Russian thinking.
Roaming gangs armed with machetes and other homemade weapons burned shops and broke into the homes of their political opponents Saturday in Kibera, the largest slum in Kenya's capital.
Many fall into the hands of ruthless and well-armed people-smuggling gangs as they try to make their way to Israel or Egypt in search of a better life.
These gangs were always recruited, financed and armed by the Indonesian army.
Estimates suggest that as many as 300, 000 child soldiers are active in conflicts around the world. 40% of armed forces (including national armies, militias, gangs, terrorist organizations and resistance forces) in the world use children.
Parts of Africa, Asia and South America risk long term instability as there is evidence of children moving from one armed group to another, or becoming part of criminal gangs.
Gangs that in the past were seen as linked to the Aristide regime continue to be armed and continue to cause problems to the election.
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