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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 history with her.

HARRISBURG, S.D. (KELO) — Achut Deng lives in Sioux Falls, but her story began on another continent. She was born in Sudan, but because of the second Sudanese civil war, she had to go south to Kenya in 1991. That was the year her grandmother took a bullet for her. “My grandmother took this bedsheet and […]

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 worried she was going to die. It wasn't the first time she felt the imminent threat of death. Her childhood, shattered by war in South Sudan,…

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - When hundreds of Achut Deng's colleagues at a South Dakota meatpacking plant were sic...

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 worried she was going to die.

SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA - As Achut Deng lay in her apartment bedroom in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, sickened alongside hundreds of her co

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When hundreds of Achut Dengs colleagues at a South Dakota meatpacking plant were sickened by COVID-19, Deng spoke out to tell of the fear gripping the Sioux Falls workforce