Lost Boys of Sudan

Jacob Atem in 2012 with his step-mother in the village of Maar, South Sudan.

Sudan’s ‘Lost Boys’ get caught in their country’s violence once again

Conflict & Justice

Nearly 20,000 boys in southern Sudan were displaced or orphaned during the country’s long civil war. Many were resettled in the US, starting in 2001. Jacob Atem was one and he recently returned to the new country of South Sudan, only to be caught in the renewed fighting there.

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