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Life after temple run: ‘I haven’t seen my mother in over two years’

Each year thousands of young Sierra Leoneans make the decision to leave their homeland in search of a new life…

Akorfa Searyoh Akorfa Searyoh

Michael Gunning: Jamaica swimmer’s rise in white-dominated sport

"I guess I'm known as the black, gay swimmer who wants to be the Usain Bolt of the pool." Michael…

Nick Hope, BBC Nick Hope, BBC

‘I’m just one of a billion’: refugee Cindy Ngamba’s remarkable road to Olympics

It’s the stink of the gym Cindy Ngamba remembers best. Sweat, leather and bleach. It was like nothing she had…

Andy Bull Andy Bull