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Youth Beat: The African Connection
The increase in immigration from Africa has created a burgeoning source of talent for the U.S. youth national team program.
About two million people fled Sierra Leone during the decade-long civil war that resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and destroyed two-thirds of the nation's infrastructure. One of the refugees was an 11-year-old boy named Israel Sesay.
Sesay moved to Washington, D.C., to join his father, who had left the West African country when Israel was 6 months old. The father, working several jobs, had little time for Israel, who eagerly awaited the arrival of his mother.
But shortly before her scheduled departure, she died of a heart attack.
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The increase in immigration from Africa has created a burgeoning source of talent for the U.S. youth national team program.
About two million people fled Sierra Leone during the decade-long civil war that resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and destroyed two-thirds of the nation's infrastructure. One of the refugees was an 11-year-old boy named Israel Sesay.
Sesay moved to Washington, D.C., to join his father, who had left the West African country when Israel was 6 months old. The father, working several jobs, had little time for Israel, who eagerly awaited the arrival of his mother.
But shortly before her scheduled departure, she died of a heart attack.
(continue)
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