We cannot continue like this, we know the pain, how deep it is. We do not want our mothers to go through the same thing again. The new sense of calm in the north is tinged with tension. Those who have been working for the children's release now fear that Sudan's next move will be to force the LRA to release a few hundred children in a high profile gesture. However, thousands more may be stranded for good.
Analysts say that the agreement has come from two presidents under pressure.
There is political instability in Sudan and, in Uganda, the Museveni miracle may be faltering with military involvement in the war in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo draining resources. Back in the capital Kampala, critics of the government's policy towards the north say they notice a change in strategy. They say that it is a change governed not so much by international opinion as by the people themselves. He's got to eliminate some of the concerns of the people, like the armed conflict in the north. Norbert Mao One of President Museveni's critics, the MP Norbert Mao, says he is anxious now to deal with the problems in the north.