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South Sudan's Magdalena Keji has defied physical impairment to pursue photography with passion, believing it can contribute to her country's renewal. "Acquiring photography techniques will help me use only a lens to demystify negative beliefs that people have toward...

David Kerkede, 31, lost a leg in 2005 in a gun battle during South Sudan's long struggle for independence from Sudan. Last year, Kerkede took up playing wheelchair basketball to enable him socialize with his able-bodied friends and barely a year later, Kerdkede is now...

Emily Tapp never heard of Para triathlon until November 2014, when she met Australia’s national manager. Two months later, she was in her first competition. Four years later, she became a double world champion. “It was in my first race where I fell in love with the...

Rebecca Witzofsky, a 20-year-old deaf student at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, and her hearing friend Nikolas Carapellatti wanted to get a coffee. But on Tuesday, Witzofsky finally didn't have to struggle to make her order understood. US coffee giant...

Kenya plans to put in place regulations to promote the use of local sign language, officials said on Thursday. Peter Musakhi, senior assistant director of the ministry of labor and social protection, told a forum for in Nairobi that the government has already formed a...

Blind female musicians perform in Cairo, Egypt, on Oct. 7, 2018. The audience at one of the halls of Cairo Opera House were so stunned by the performance of an orchestra of about 40 blind female musicians that they seemed hypnotized by the music, yet they couldn't...