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The Real Mo Farah
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 mother and twin brother what…
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FKF Reveals Main Reason Why Gor Mahia, Kenya Police Match Was Canceled
FKF Premier League defending champions Gor Mahia were set to face Mozzart Bet Cup winners Kenya Police in the FKF Charity Shield, a curtain-raiser for the 2024/25 season. However, the eagerly anticipated match, set to be played on Sunday, August 11, 2024, at the Ulinzi Sports Complex in Nairobi, was…
How Basketball changed the life of a young Somali lady in Leicester
Stepping on to the basketball court, I feel my shoulders slacken. In that moment, it’s just me, my basketball and a hoop; nothing else matters. I couldn’t risk losing that feeling when I first started playing at college, aged 16, so basketball became my secret. Growing up in Leicester’s Somali…
Somaliland’s first all-girls basketball team shoot for recognition
Wrapped in the tricolour flag of her homeland, 21-year-old captain Hafsa Omer bounces the basketball between her legs, dribbles, lays it up off the backboard, and watches it clatter into the hoop. Her dream is to one day play for her nation, but there is a catch - Somaliland is…
Somali-British boxer Ramla Ali battles injustice where she finds a cause
Soon after the bell sounded to end Ramla Ali’s second professional fight, the Somali-born boxer was in a room behind the ring at the SSE Arena in Wembley crying dejectedly. The tears were not because she lost. She didn’t. Nor were they because a doctor was stitching a nasty cut…
Mo Farah joins UN migration agency as global goodwill ambassador
Four-time Olympic gold medal winner Mo Farah, who was born in Somalia and trafficked to Britain as a child, joined the UN migration agency on Tuesday as its first global goodwill ambassador. The athletics great, who retired in September aged 40, said he wanted to help people in similar circumstances…
Somalia suspends athletics head after runner goes viral in snail-paced 100m
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…