In 1987, civil war drove an estimated 20,000 young boys from their families and villages in southern Sudan. Most just six or seven years old, they fled to Ethiopia to escape death or induction into ...

A contemporary immigrant story, "Lost Boys of Sudan" should be required viewing for all those who live in Lincoln. After all, this film could be about some of the young Sudanese refugees who now call ...

Despite its title, "God Grew Tired of Us: The Story of the Lost Boys of Sudan" is no Sally Struthers-worthy sob story. The documentary trades in hope and humor, rather than despair. Directors ...

NAIROBI, Kenya, May 2 (UNHCR) - Separated from his family as a child when his village was attacked during Sudan's civil war, Valentino Achak Deng fled on foot with a group of young boys, eventually ...

GLENDALE, Ariz. - Tut Gatyiel didn't have a choice when he fled his home in Southern Sudan as a boy because of civil war. He had no choice but to walk 1,000 perilous miles through the desert for three ...

We called them lost and we called them boys, but they were neither. By the time the first of them arrived in Lincoln in 2001, the so-called Lost Boys of Sudan were no longer wandering in the African ...

AWERIAL, South Sudan (AP) - Phillip Madol once studied in America as one of Sudan's "Lost Boys" who fled bloodshed and famine. This week he was again caught up in a war as he helped his family flee a ...

JUBA, Sudan, November 29 (UNHCR) - Lots of people have heard about the "Lost Boys of Sudan" who ended up in the United States after years on the run in their war-torn country or stuck in refugee camps ...

When Simon Adueny and Peter Bior arrived in Houston four years ago, the young men from Sudan expected to experience some culture shock. But one of the biggest challenges they faced was finding a job. ...

NEW FAIRFIELD -- One of the "Lost Boys of the Sudan'' who escaped genocide in 1987, will be the guest speaker at St. Edward the Confessor Roman Catholic Church on Sunday at 6:30 p.m. Dut Tong will ...

She didn't believe that he was her son. He had survived a perilous trek through the desert as a child, years in refugee camps and a car crash in the United States that left him with brain damage. He ...