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New community center in California offers refuge for Sudanese Americans

NPR

Published June 19, 2023 at 8:33 AM EDT

Traditional musicians set up to play at the new Sudanese-American community center in Hayward, California. (Katherine Monahan/KQED)

As fighting continues between the army and the RSF paramilitary group in Sudan, a new community center is offering comfort for hundreds of Sudanese Americans in Hayward, California.

Katherine Monahan of KQED visited the center and has our report.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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