{"id":727308,"date":"2026-08-04T15:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/727308\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T15:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:18:08","slug":"four-ugandan-boxers-go-missing-after-commonwealth-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/727308\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Ugandan boxers go missing after Commonwealth Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Ugandan sports outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/nbssport.co.ug\/article\/team-uganda-awaits-official-word-as-four-boxers-reportedly-go-awol-in-scotland?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NBS Sports<\/a> named the athletes as Angel Katushabe, Nuhu Batte, Ibrahim Khemis and Emily Nakalema.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/observerug\/status\/2084347645342933245?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Weekly Observer,<\/a> a Ugandan newspaper, also reported the disappearances, saying it had spoken to officials at Uganda Bombers, the country\u2019s national boxing team.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The claims emerged after the 2026 Commonwealth Games, which brought 11 days of sporting action to venues across Glasgow, came to a close on Sunday night.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It would not be the first time members of Team Uganda have failed to return home after a major event. Reports from 2018 said at least five Ugandan boxers vanished during the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Two Ugandan rugby sevens players, Benon Kizza and Philip Pariyo, also disappeared after Glasgow 2014, before later claiming asylum and settling in Cardiff, according to contemporary reporting\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/topics\/home-office\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Home Office<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/topics\/scottish-government\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scottish Government<\/a> and Uganda\u2019s ministry responsible for sport have been approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ugandan sports outlet NBS Sports named the athletes as Angel Katushabe, Nuhu Batte, Ibrahim Khemis and Emily Nakalema.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-727308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}