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Article: 'LOST BOYS' RETURN TO GEORGIA SOUTHERN
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 2, 2006
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Georgia Southern University issued the following news release:
Two "Lost Boys of Sudan" make a return visit to Georgia Southern University to discuss their refugee experience on Monday, Nov. 13, at 7 p.m. in Russell Union Ballroom. The two, Jacob Magot and Nathaniel Nyok, are part of a group of orphaned refugees, the "Lost Boys," who journeyed to the United States after they were forced from their villages as young children.
Their story began in 1987 in southern Sudan. As the boys tended their cattle, extremist Islamic Arabs from northern Sudan attacked their villages, killing their parents and sisters. The now-orphaned boys ran away and headed east. Weeks went by before they reached an ...