Feature: South Sudan wheelchair amputees play basketball to fight stigma, eye 2020 Tokyo Paralympics

Players practice shooting at a basketball court in Juba, South Sudan, Nov. 26, 2019. Some were victims of land mines, others of gunshot wounds and some are survivors of polio. All of them are amputees, some of them double amputees. Now the team has high hopes of making it to the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games, which runs from Aug. 25 to Sept. 6, and leaves a lasting mark on the global stage. The team, which is camping in Juba, told Xinhua it hopes to use sports to end the stigma of disability and offer the players a chance to integrate with society and live a normal life. South Sudan has over 400,000 people disabled from civil war or by polio. (Xinhua/Wang Teng)