The Lost Boys couldn't go home to Sudan and Kenya didn't want them. Then, in the year 2000, the State Department decided they deserved a break and invited them to come live in the United States.

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 the ...

Three of the "lost boys of Sudan" write about their harrowing experiences fleeing Sudan for a new life in the United States in They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky. Accessibility links.

"I am no longer a 'Lost Boy,' " said a jubliant Peter Apai, referring to the thousands of boys who fled Sudan — many on foot — during the country's civil strife that began in the 1980s.

The Duk Lost Boys Clinic — which in three years has treated 28,000 people — wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for John Bul Dau, one of the Lost Boys of Sudan who fled a civil war in their ...

Many of the "Lost Boys" -- now in their late 20s and mid-30s -- have gained an education in this country. Some have married, and almost all of them have stuck together in Cleveland.

The "Lost Boys" left war-torn Sudan in the late 1980s on a difficult odyssey that also took them to Ethiopia and Kenya. Isaac Tuong, walking on the Mall, finds another use for the American flag as ...

POWAY — The Lost Boys of Sudan are men now. A decade or so after arriving as refugees — having survived a harrowing 1,000-mile trek through war-torn Africa on foot — they have found a new ...

"Lost Boys of Sudan" is a potent, engrossing look at several young refugees from Sudan's disastrous, endless civil war who've been relocated to the U.S. Their early experiences here provide a ...

BEAVER CREEK Lado Jurkin came of age in the toughest of circumstances: In 1988, when he was just 8, his village in Sudan was attacked by janjaweed militiamen, and he became separated from his parents ...

The Lost Boys couldn't go home to Sudan and Kenya didn't want them. Then, in the year 2000, the State Department decided they deserved a break and invited them to come live in the United States.

The Lost Boys of Sudan Civil war in Sudan has displaced an estimated 6 million people, including 20,000 boys orphaned and left to find their fate amid a perilous landscape.