Armed with a Calvin education, two master’s degrees and a passion to make a difference for his people, once Lost Boy Mayom Bol Achuk ’06 returned to South Sudan in July 2012. Employed by the Borlaug ...

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 ...

James is one of the "lost boys" of Sudan, although the ravages of civil war robbed him of his boyhood long ago. Like thousands of boys from southern Sudan, James became orphaned 15 years ago when ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

KAKUMA, Kenya — For the past eight years, 17-year-old Martin Marial has shared a small mud-and-thatch hut with five other boys in a dusty, fly-infested refugee camp in northwestern Kenya. His parents ...

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 ...

Writing a memoir based on the memories of an entire childhood filled with the savagery of war would certainly be difficult enough. Doing so after having been trained as a tiny soldier to kill Arabs ...

*U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May will allow the Foundation for Lost Boys and Girls of Sudan to continue their copyright and fraud lawsuit the producers behind last year’s “The Good Lie.” The suit ...