A Soccer Star Caught in Poverty, a Risky Trip, and a Sorrowful End

Hers is a fate shared by hundreds of others from her country and across West Africa who have died crossing the Mediterranean Sea or somewhere along the thousands of miles of treacherous desert to get there.

"A Soccer Star Caught in Poverty, a Risky Trip, and a Sorrowful End" is from the January 13, 2017 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Jaime Yaya Barry and narrated by Corey M. Snow.