Somalia’s athletics boss has been suspended after an untrained runner went viral for taking nearly 22 seconds to complete the 100-metre sprint at an international competition. Nasra Abukar Ali, 20, came dead last at the World University Games in Chengdu, China on Tuesday, taking almost twice as long to finish as the winner, Brazil’s Gabriela […]
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As the Somali U17 national team marks their continental football debut at any age level, anticipation and excitement build ahead of their crucial showdown with the already-qualified Senegal in the final Group A match of the TotalEnergies U17 Africa Cup of Nations. Slated for Friday at the Constantine, the game presents a golden opportunity for […]
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Ramla Ali approaches a table at a New York City hotel restaurant struggling to balance slices of orange and a 1.5-liter water bottle in her right hand. Meanwhile, she sticks her left hand in a pocket of her sweatpants, fiddling it to confirm that she has all her supplements. Glucosamine, fish oil, vitamin-B complex, coenzyme […]
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Sir Mo Farah has revealed he’s ‘still looking for answers’ after he opened up for the first time about being trafficked to the UK. The Olympian received an outpouring of love after revealing he was trafficked into the country as a child and treated like a servant by the people he initially lived with. He bravely confronted his […]
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The shocking backstory of Olympic runner Mo Farah is told in this doc from Red Bull Studios, revealing for the first time that the young Farah was illegally trafficked to the UK from Somaliland and helped by his school to obtain British citizenship through deception. In the doc, Farah visits his family village in Somaliland to ask his […]
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Canada’s most successful long-distance runner, Mohammed “Moh” Ahmed, was presented the Key to the City by St. Catharines Mayor Walter Sendzik on Tuesday. Ahmed has broken several Canadian records, and won countless medals while representing Canada on the world stage, including a gold medal at the Pan American Games in 2015. Ahmed was already been […]
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By John Nene Somalia is among the 31 countries which have so far confirmed participation in the Africa Boxing Confederation Men and Women’s Championships scheduled for Maputo from September 9-18. This will be Somalia’s first appearance in the AFBC tournament now in its 20th edition. Somalia Boxing Federation (SBF) has not stated whether their star […]
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Already used to making history in a career that has taken her from becoming Somalia’s first boxer to compete at an Olympic Games, a British Vogue cover model and UNICEF Ambassador, Ramla Ali will mark another major first in Jeddah on Saturday Ali will feature on the undercard of the Oleksandr Usyk versus Anthony Joshua […]
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Somaliland-born runner Mohamed Abdi Jama Farah—known as Mo Farah—won 10 gold medals (four Olympic and six World titles) for being the second man in history to win long-distance doubles at successive Olympics and World Championships. But he won much more than that. He won a platform to tell his story of forced servitude and how […]
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Nobody realized the boy in the wheelchair would die. A grenade had exploded in his yard, a deadly pebble in Somalia’s civil war, but even as Abdul Rahman Ali got wheeled toward the hospital, the wounds from the shrapnel were not easy to recognize. When he passed, at age 12 or so, he left behind […]
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