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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.

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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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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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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

The Hindu

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.

Daily Record

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.

The Independent UK

‘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.

Al Jazeera

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

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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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Daily Mirror

Channel 4 News hit with Ofcom complaints and petition to remove terrorist segment

Channel 4 news has been hit with over 100 complaints from telly fans over Jamal Osman’s 'Inside Al- Shabaab' feature. Some disgruntled viewers claimed the broadcast of of 'glamorising terrorism and promoting dangerous ideologies to young audiences'

Radio France Internationale

Urgent appeal for aid as Somalia slides into catastrophic famine

The United Nations humanitarian agency has called for a massive scale-up in resources to save Somalia from famine.

The Guardian - UK

Somalia: ‘The worst humanitarian crisis we’ve ever seen’

Children starving to death ‘before our eyes’ say aid workers as G7 leaders warned only ‘massive’ and urgent funding will avert famine

The Conversation

No time for complacency: Somalia's unfolding famine catastrophe

Somalia is on the brink of catastrophe. A recent assessment suggests that 7.7 million Somalis need emergency aid right now, a similar number to those affected by the Ethiopian famine in 1984, one of the worst humanitarian disasters in history. About one million people died then.

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin's war machine will see world become 'hell on earth' if not stopped

Director of the UN's World Food Programme David Beasley has warned of "frightening" food shortages that could spark widespread civil unrest in countries relying on Ukraine's wheat exports to feed their citizens

Reuters

A Somali boy's mission to find food as climate change takes its toll

Each morning in this Somali border town, 11-year-old Bashir Nur Salat plots his day's mission behind a crooked wire fence. Armed with only a friend's yellow school shirt, a borrowed book and toothy grin, he eyes his prize through the mesh: lunch.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Somalia Grants KSrelief Medal of Honor for its Humanitarian Efforts

Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Robley awarded the Medal of Honor to the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) for its distinguished efforts in providing urgent humanitarian and relief assistance in the country. The prime minister recognized KSrelief's aid to the displaced people who were affected by drought…

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