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The US State Department said it expected to complete by September a programme to resettle approximately 3,800 Sudanese children and young adults. The targeted refugees, now in Kakuma Refugee Camp in northwestern Kenya, became known as the “lost boys” when they were separated from their parents during the civil war in 1987 and fled on foot more than 1,000 km to neighbouring Ethiopia. A State Department press release said on Monday that despite tracing efforts by humanitarian organisations, many of the children in the resettlement programme had “little hope that they will ever see their parents again”.
Out of some 10,000 “lost boys” who reached Kakuma in 1992, many later left the camp and were not eligible for the resettlement scheme, UNHCR spokesman Paul Stromberg told IRIN. The Kakuma refugees will be resettled in 28 states by 10 resettlement agencies working with the US government, said the press release. [For more details see IRIN article SUDAN: American resettlement of “lost boys” continues.]
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