Cameroon: Sacked, Shunned and Suicidal - the Cameroon Sports Stars Battling Anti-Gay Laws

Yaounde — Cameroonian athlete Thierry Essamba still trains every day, even though he has little hope of reviving a career cut off when he was ousted from the national squad in a scandal over homosexuality.

The 38-year-old hurdling champion was training for the 2014 Commonwealth Games when a senior sports official told a crowd of journalists and fellow athletes that he was gay - a career-ending slur in a country where homosexual acts are illegal.

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