AN orphan kidnapped in June 2000 by Angola’s main rebel group has escaped and managed to make his way to the town of Kuito, the aid agency that was caring for him said this week. ”We can confirm that the child has arrived in Kuito, but we have not yet had any contact with him,” said Rikke Viholm, who heads the Angolan branch of Humana People to People in Huambo, where the child was kidnapped. The child was among 21 orphans kidnapped last year from an orphanage run by the agency in the town of Huambo, 600km south of Luanda. Four of the children managed to escape one week after they were captured by rebels from the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita), Viholm said. Unita rebels kidnapped another 60 orphans May 5 this year from an orphanage also run by an affiliate of Humana in the town of Caxito, only 60km outside Luanda. None of those orphans have been heard from since their kidnapping – AFP