Most people here have fled Sudan and Somalia, countries long considered breeding grounds for terrorism.

It was Mr. Khalis who gave Mr. bin Laden sanctuary in his Afghan fief near Jalalabad when Mr. bin Laden fled Sudan in 1996.

According to U.S. State Department estimates, during an upsurge in fighting that began in 1987, some 17,000 boys were separated from their families and fled southern Sudan in an exodus of biblical proportions.

By 1998, Mr. bin Laden was well established in Afghanistan after fleeing Sudan two years earlier.

Mr. Jourchol fled Sudan for India, where he earned a law degree, and later the United States granted him refugee status.

He was forced to flee Sudan in 1989 following after the National Islamic Front took power in 1989.

After fleeing Sudan, he worked for the United Nations in Somalia between 1992 and 1994.

It offered shelter to Osama bin Ladin after the latter fled Sudan in 1996.

July 1989: Fled Sudan, following the June 1989 military coup d'état, through the Western Borders and left all his colleagues behind.

Many of the best young runners from Africa fled Somalia and Sudan, nations enduring long civil wars.