Uganda: Sudanese refugees persuaded to go home

United Nations and Sudanese officials have arrived in Uganda in an effort to persuade tens of thousands of reluctant Sudanese refugees to return to their homes in the south of Africa's largest country. The UN refugee body, UNHCR, began the repatriation programme early this year but then stopped the exercise on October 20 after gunmen killed dozens of people in a series of attacks on highways in southern Sudan.