CLUTCHING their meagre possessions and clinging to their mothers, five Ugandan children set foot on home soil years after rebels abducted their mothers and took them to Sudan. The mothers and children were the second group to arrive at Entebbe Airport this week following the Sudanese government’s promise at a conference in Canada earlier this month to step up repatriation of abducted Ugandans. Since 1987, rebels of the Sudan-based Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) have abducted thousands of people, mostly children, in northern Uganda, to assist them in a vicious guerrilla war against the government of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. UN agencies in Kampala estimate that several thousand abducted Ugandans are still in Sudan, some of them born in LRA camps. – Reuters