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Today, going home proves a challenge after long years of conflict in Uganda.

Sri Lankans talk of what really happened during the final days of their brutal civil war.

There's an encounter on death row in Texas with a British woman who once sang for Prince Charles,

and the Chinese take to the open road in search of new friends and perhaps romance.

Life has ever so slowly been returning to normal in northern Uganda.

For two decades, this was where one of Africa's most horrific conflicts took place,

as local rebels, calling themselves the Lord's Resistance Army,

preyed upon the local Acholi people.

In recent years, Ugandan troops forced the LRA out of the country,

although some of its fighters do still operate in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo

and other parts of the region.

But the people of Acholeyland, who were displaced by the fighting, have been going home.

Richard Dowden's been finding out that their return hasn't always gone smoothly.

The only problem I had on the road north from Karuma Falls, where we crossed the Nile, was rain.

It started at dusk and hit the windscreen as if we were in a car wash.

The driver's response was to go faster, get to Gulu more quickly,

although there were scores of cars and lorries, pedestrians and cyclists on the two-lane road.

Not so long ago, this road would have been empty.

When I travelled along it last, we went in convoy.

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