Wide Angle: Night Flight

Every evening, as many as 40,000 children in northern Uganda hike for miles from their rural villages to shelters in town. These so-called night commuters are hiding from the Lord's Resistance Army, a radical, religious paramilitary group that seeks to swell its ranks by abducting children while they sleep. If caught, their next march will be as Uganda's youngest soldiers.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY BRUNO STEVENS | FEBRUARY 17, 2006