African athletes granted bridging visas. :
"The bridging visas will allow the athletes time to apply for long term visas.
Another eight Sierra Leoneans are still listed as missing and are in breach of their special purposes visas after their athlete accreditations, provided for the Commonwealth Games, were withdrawn yesterday."
There are dtill 9 Cameroon athletes, one Tanzanian boxer and a Bangladeshi runner to be found. I think the treatment of the Sierra Leone athletes is remarkably sane. They caome from a country which ought to be one of the richest in the world but the diamonds have been smuggled out and sold elsewhere for profit. I am pleased to hear they have been given time to make a proper case and I hope the cases will be heard favourably.
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