Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After battling COVID-19 and thinking her life might end, Achut Deng came to a realization: her three sons didn’t know the full ...

Before she was a teenager, Achut Deng escaped civil war in South Sudan and life in a Kenyan refugee camp. Until recently, she carried that secret... Rebroadcast: Author Achut Deng's journey of ...

Achut Deng describes this story in her book, “Don’t Look Back: A Memoir of War, Survival, and My Journey from Sudan to America.” Her grandmother saved her life with the words, “Don’t Look Back.” ...

Deng fled from massacres and she experienced trauma as a refugee in the United States. As Achut Deng lay in her apartment bedroom in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, sickened alongside ...

This rebroadcast originally aired on December 19, 2022. Before she was a teenager, Achut Deng escaped civil war in South Sudan and life in a Kenyan refugee camp: “I remember what my grandmother told ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — As Achut Deng lay in her apartment bedroom in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, sickened alongside hundreds of her co-workers at a South Dakota meatpacking plant, she ...