But South Sudan's meteoric rise in men's basketball would not be possible without former NBA All-Star Luol Deng. Here's why. Deng is the president of South Sudan's basketball federation.

NAIROBI: Refugee turned NBA star, Luol Deng (pic) has worked tirelessly throughout his career to develop basketball in his troubled homeland South Sudan, as federation president, patron and ...

Although most "cannot locate South Sudan on a map", they won't forget the Bright Stars. Luol Deng: from child refugee to basketball behemoth The man credited with the team's success is Luol Deng ...

Garang Ding was one of the standout players from Nairobi City Thunder last season, as they clinched their first ever Kenya ...

Luol Deng has been supporting UNHCR ... Born in 1985 in what is now South Sudan, Luol and his family fled the war and ended up as refugees in the United Kingdom, where he became a British citizen in ...

Shegold told South Sudan in Focus that he decided to specialize ... displayed their creations for a fashion show for the Luol Deng Foundation’s annual conference in Minneapolis in 2019.

Their name means “I am tired” in Arabic and their aim is clear: to bring an end to the violence that has been troubling South Sudan, the world’s newest country, since 2013.