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The four-time Olympic champion, 39, said there were a lot of people he ‘owed my life to’ and that had given him the ‘strength’ to talk about his past.

In tonight's edition: Olympic champion Mo Farah has revealed he was trafficked to Britain as a child from Djibouti. The war in Ukraine has deepened a food emergency that is affecting a staggering 346 million people in parts of Africa. And communities in Niger are ramping up training in farming…

Olympic gold medallist reveals he had been brought to the UK from Djibouti at the age of nine and forced to serve another family’s children

Met Police says specialist officers are assessing information on claims Olympian was forced to work as servant

Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi praised Sir Mo as a ‘truly inspirational’ role model after the revelations.

In a new documentary, Farah says his real name is Hussein Abdi Kahin and that he was from taken from the East African nation of Djibouti.

"Most people know me as Mo Farah, but it's not my name — or, it's not the reality," Olympic gold medalist Mo Farah said, in a clip from an upcoming documentary.

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

Sir Mo Farah, 39, will share the truth about his past being trafficked to the UK from Somaliland at the age of nine. The documentary on BBC One follows him as he journeys into his past.