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Former NBA star Luol Deng has steered South Sudan's basketball journey to Paris Olympics .
South Sudan emerged from civil war to become an independent nation in 2011 .
Deng was born in Wau , Sudan , and his father moved with his family to Egypt in the throes of the second Sudanese civil war.
He moved to the United States in 1999 at age 14 after being recruited by New Jersey’s Blair Academy .
South Sudan has risen from 82nd to 33rd in the FIBA world rankings.
The Bright Stars are Africa ’s second -highest ranked team behind No. 31 Cote d’Ivoire.
Omot: “What the people will see when they think about our people, they see a lot of nothing but violence".
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