FARGO (AP) - Rebicca Mabing of Sudan has reunited with her two daughters here after 11 years.

Aluel and Sarah Monyazal stepped off a plane into their mother's arms in a tearful reunion last month.

The teens are among more than 100 refugees who have resettled in Cass County since late July. Many are reuniting with family members already here.

It's the largest group of refugees coming at one time since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks four years ago.

Mabing arrived in the United States in June 2000 with her sons. Sudan's civil war divided the family. She learned her daughters were alive in 2001. She said she needed to see them to believe it.

She waited a year and a half to find out her attempt to bring the girls to America was denied. She moved to Fargo in 2002 and tried again.

In the meantime, her daughters traveled from Sudan to Uganda, back to Sudan, and then to Egypt before being resettled here.

Now 16-year-old Sarah is a sophomore at South High School. Aluel, 18, wants to go to school.

Mabing is thankful her six children are finally with her.

Having relatives already here is a great benefit for refugees, said Kathy Thoreson, vice president of family services for Lutheran Social Services, a resettling agency.

The family members co-sponsor new refugees, helping them find a place to live and integrate into the community, she said.

Marlene Espejo, refugee health nurse at Fargo's Family HealthCare Center, sees all new arrivals. She said many come in with family members.

"It's just really nice to see they're getting back together and hopefully putting their lives and families intact, as we would all want," Espejo said.

From the end of July through Friday, 108 refugees were slated to settle in Cass County, said Kathy Hogan, executive director of the county's Social Service Department.

More refugees usually settle in the fall because the federal fiscal year ends Sept. 30.

While this is the largest group the community has welcomed since 2001, the total number of refugees is lower than in 2004, when 228 refugees settled in North Dakota, Thoreson said.

After the terrorist attacks, the United States shut down the flow of refugees into the country. A new application process slowed the flow of refugees, said Linda Schell, state refugee coordinator for the Department of Human Services.

North Dakota can handle between 200 and 300 refugees a year, Schell said. Fargo is the primary site for resettlement in North Dakota, though some refugees move to Grand Forks.

Somalis make up the majority of refugees coming here this year, and most do not know English, she said.

Somalis and Sudanese are also moving to the area through secondary migration. Refugees who settle in one part of the country come to Fargo because they have friends or family here, Thoreson said. At the same time, some refugees who settle in Fargo are also moving away.