By the end of next year, officials plan to resettle nearly 13,000 Bantu, who were enslaved and persecuted for generations in Somalia until civil war scattered them to desolate and violent refugee camps in Kenya in the early 1990's.

"In school, the Americans bother me because they know how to speak English better than me," said Muridi, a member of the Bantu tribe, whose members were enslaved and persecuted in Somalia until the early 1990's, when civil war forced them to flee to Kenya's desolate refugee camps.

For the thousands of weary and bewildered Sudanese boys, the desolate refugee camp here a few miles inside the Kenyan border is the latest stopping point in a four-year, 1,000-mile barefoot odyssey of starvation and endurance across three countries.

Ntianu, the woman who escapes, ends up in a desolate refugee camp.

Other Somalis have suffered under the Dictatorship, but the Dictatorship declared a war on the Somaliland people which led to, as documented by Amnesty International in 1990, " the deaths of 50,000 people, the aerial bombardment of major cities and the exodus of nearly million people to desolate refugee camps."