Kenya refuses to take runner back »

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Kenyan authorities say they will not give their nationality back to a top athlete who defected to Bahrain, before being stripped of his new citizenship. Mushir Salem Jawher, born Leonard Mucheru, is now stateless after running a marathon in Israel, which Bahrain does not recognise.