The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
Ugandan athletes who vanished
Boxers: Bashir Nasir and Regan Simbwa
Weightlifters: Irene Kasubo and Khalid Batuusa
Table tennis: Halima Nambozo
Cycling: Vienna Ssekanga
Sub-Saharan vanishing athletes
2006 Commonwealth Games held in Melbourne, Australia: One Tanzanian and three Nigerian athletes.
2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England: 21 members out of 30 Sierra Leone athletes.
Another 26 athletes from other countries, including nine Cameroonians, vanished.
82 athletes, coaches and other delegates filed for asylum in the United Kingdom during the Olympics, including a Sudanese athlete who walked into a London police station to claim asylum before the opening ceremony even began.
2012: Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland: Two Ugandan rugby players vanished.
