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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…

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Sir Mo Farah ‘still looking for answers’ after opening up about being trafficked to UK in powerful documentary

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…

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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…

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New film protrays famed Somaliland runner into servitude in the UK

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…