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Re: لاجيء سوداني يصبح دبلوماسي أمريكي!! بقلم ف (Re: ABDALLAH ABDALLAH)
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http://qz.com/544900/a-former-sudanese-lost-boy-is-now-a-us-diplomat/http://qz.com/544900/a-former-sudanese-lost-boy-is-now-a-us-diplomat/
Quote: Gai Nyok, one of 25,000 Sudanese orphaned by civil war—better known as the “lost boys”— has been sworn in as foreign service officer for the US Department of State.
Gai, now 29, fled his village of Abang in what is now South Sudan at the age of 5 and trekked over 1,500 kilometers (almost 1,000 miles) to a refugee camp in Ethiopia. In 2001, he was granted asylum to the United States where he was later taken in by an American family, completed high school, and won a scholarship to earn his bachelor’s degree at Virginia Commonwealth University. He went on to be a Thomas R. Pickering fellow, a government program that prepares young graduates for a career in the foreign service.
In late October, Gai was sworn in at as a US diplomat and will be traveling to Venezuela, his first assignment, next summer. |
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