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Somalia Athletics Head Under Fire Over Viral ‘Runner’ Video

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Last updated: August 3, 2023 12:14 pm
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Somalia’s sports minister has accused its head of athletics of “defaming” the country after a video showing a clearly amateur runner coming last in an international race went viral.

Mohamed Barre Mohamud said Wednesday a woman who competed for Somalia in the 100 metres at the ongoing Summer World University Games in China as neither a “sports person nor a runner”.

There was also no “Somali University Sports Association”, the minister said in a letter addressed to the nation’s Olympic committee.

The woman, identified by the ministry as Nasro Abukar Ali, plodded over the finish line more than 10 seconds behind the winner, sparking ridicule and outrage among Somalis on social media.

Mohamud said the chairwoman of the Somali Athletics Federation had “engaged in acts of abuse of power, nepotism, and defaming the name of the nation in international arena” by sending Ali to compete.

They let literally anyone run for Somalia. This is 100% real! pic.twitter.com/T31EC1yoHL

— Larry Madowo (@LarryMadowo) August 2, 2023

“The Ministry of Youth and Sports firmly declares its intention to pursue legal action” against the chairwoman, Khadijo Aden Dahir, and those responsible for the “falsification of the Somali University Sports Association”.

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The minister recommended the Olympic committee suspend Dahir and convene an urgent meeting to decide the next course of action.

Nestled in the Horn of Africa and struggling with a violent militant insurgency and a record-bad drought, Somalia ranked last out of 180 nations on Transparency International’s corruption index in 2022

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