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‘I’m not who you think I am’ — the secret pain behind Sir Mo Farah’s success

Trafficked into the UK and treated like a slave — the Olympic star’s story is harrowing. Ahead of tonight’s documentary, Jessica Morgan looks back on the incredible life of a national treasure

Evening Standard

Mo Farah’s 'estranged' brother harbours deep regrets over act that split them

Mo Farah's brother Ahmed Farah was deported to Somalia after being jailed for false imprisonment

Daily Mirror

Where is Somaliland? Mo Farah's birth place, map and its history with Somalia

In BBC One's documentary The Real Mo Farah, the long distance runner explains how he was trafficked to the UK from Somaliland. Here's where the autonomous region is located and its troubled history with Somalia.

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Sir Mo Farah is ‘relieved’ Home Office won’t deport him after trafficking claim

Sir Mo Farah revealed in his upcoming documentary how he was illegally trafficked to the UK from Somalia and assumed the name of another child.

Daily Record

Rap music finds a home in Somalia as its youth embrace the genre

Rappers say their songs resonate with the youth because they express everyday struggles; religious leaders disagree.

Al Jazeera

Councillor suspended by Tories after retweeting claims mosques are 'hiding secret arsenals'

Councillor Alanna Vine retweeted a number of posts, including a call for the UK to stop accepting refugees and someone claiming part of Manchester was 'like being in Somalia’

Manchester Evening News

Sir Mo Farah ‘relieved’ Home Office will take no action over documentary revelations

Farah revealed in a documentary titled The Real Mo Farah that he was brought to Britain from Somalia illegally

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Sir Mo Farah is 'relieved' Home Office won't take action after his trafficking claim

Sir Mo Farah revealed in his upcoming documentary how he was illegally brought to Britain from Somalia and assumed the name of another child

Daily Mirror

Home Office will take no action against Sir Mo Farah after his shock revelation

The four-time Olympic champion revealed in a BBC documentary that he was brought to Britain from Somalia illegally

Wales Online

‘This is my country’ – Sir Mo Farah ‘relieved’ Home Office will take no action

Farah revealed in a documentary titled The Real Mo Farah that he was brought to Britain from Somalia illegally.

The Independent UK

A moment of mounting chaos: the Somalia of Mo Farah’s childhood

Farah grew up at a time of deep poverty and instability in the Horn of Africa, where criminal networks smuggling resources and people flourished

The Guardian - UK

Sir Mo Farah comes 'face to face' with the 'real' Mo Farah after revealing true identity

Olympic champion Mo Farah has revealed he was trafficked to the UK from Somalia using another child's name in a new BBC documentary which will air this week

Daily Mirror

Mo Farah praised as ‘truly great Briton’ after revealing he was trafficked into UK

Olympian hailed as inspirational figure after revealing he was trafficked and forced into domestic servitude

The Guardian - UK

What is Olympian Sir Mo Farah’s real name and where is he from?

His story will be told in a new documentary by the BBC and Red Bull Studios.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Mo Farah Says He Was Victim of Child Trafficking

Multiple Olympic and world champion Mo Farah was brought to Britain from Djibouti at the age of nine and was forced to do housework and childcare in exchange for food, he told the BBC. The 39-year-old Briton, who was born in Somalia, added his name had been changed to Mohamed…

The Hindu

Former Olympic champion Mo Farah reveals real identity

The 39-year-old, whose father was killed in Somalia when he was four, said his real name is Hussein Abdi Kahin and claimed he was made to look after another family’s children in Britain

Daily Record

Sir Mo Farah was illegally trafficked into the UK under false name as Olympic legend reveals birth name

Sir Mo Farah revealed his father was killed in the Somalia civil war and he was separated from his mum before being illegally trafficked to the UK.

The Independent UK

Sir Mo Farah: From tough beginnings to one of the UK’s most successful athletes

The athlete’s track triumphs have earned him a knighthood and a place as a British household name.

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Al Jazeera

‘No sign of rain’: Citizens despair as drought devastates Somalia

The UN says nearly 7.1 million Somalis, almost half of the country’s population, face acute levels of food insecurity.

The Guardian - UK

Famine: what is it, where will it strike and how should the world respond?

A toxic combination of climate emergency, conflict and Covid is pushing some of the poorest countries into an acute hunger crisis

The Guardian - UK

Global hunger toll soars by 150 million as Covid and Ukraine war make their mark

Tenth of world’s population now chronically undernourished, with spectre of widespread famine drawing ever closer, warns report

The Independent UK

Facing severe drought, Somalia calls for Turkish support

Somalia’s president has called for assistance from Turkey to combat the effects of severe drought that is threatening the Horn of Africa

The Conversation

We built an algorithm to predict how climate change will affect future conflict in the Horn of Africa: here's what we found

The Horn of Africa, on the eastern coast of the continent, is currently being battered by an intense and sustained drought thanks to which around 20 million people are going hungry. And, given the ongoing armed conflict in the region – particularly in Somalia and Ethiopia – safely getting nutritious…

The Independent UK

Ukraine's shadow: Deadly crises like Somalia starved of aid

The war in Ukraine has abruptly drawn millions of dollars away from longer-running humanitarian crises

The Conversation

Is eastern Africa's drought the worst in recent history? And are worse yet to come?

Large areas of Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya are currently in the grip of a severe drought. An estimated 16.7 million people face acute food insecurity. That’s more than the combined populations of Austria and Switzerland.

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