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In this photo taken Monday, May 29, 2017, former child soldier James walks down the road from his small hut in a protection of civilians site to his first day at his new school, after recently being reunited with his mother who had thought he was dead, in Bentiu, South Sudan. James, one of an estimated 18,000 children fighting in South Sudan according to the United Nations, was left for dead on a battlefield while back home his mother mourned him and held a funeral without a body, having no idea that he was still alive. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

In this photo taken Monday, May 29, 2017, former child soldier James walks down the road from his small hut in a protection of civilians site to his first day at his new school, after recently being reunited with his mother who had thought he was dead, in Bentiu, South Sudan. James, one of an estimated 18,000 children fighting in South Sudan according to the United Nations, was left for dead on a battlefield while back home his mother mourned him and held a funeral without a body, having no idea that he was still alive. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

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