Gambian female goalkeeper drowns in Mediterranean crossing

[WorldNews]

A young woman soccer star who had played goalkeeper for Gambia drowned last month while trying to cross from Libya to Europe, her brother said on Thursday. Fatim Jawara, 20, quit Gambia to head across the Sahara desert to Libya in September. Modou Jawara, her elder brother, said that the Libyan agent who organized her attempted crossing to Italy had told the family two weeks ago that she had drowned in the Mediterranean along with several other Gambians.

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