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Ngamba is unable to return to Cameroon because of her sexuality – with homosexuality in the country punishable with up to five years in prison.<\/p>\n
However, after 15 years in England, she is still fighting to be granted a visa and UK citizenship.<\/p>\n
Five years ago she was on the verge of being deported after attending what she thought was a routine signing-on process to let authorities know she was still in the country.<\/p>\n
Ngamba was arrested, along with her brother Kennet, and sent from Manchester to a detention camp in London, before being released the following day.<\/p>\n
Before Paris 2024, GB Boxing unsuccessfully tried to add Ngamba to its ranks for the Olympic programme, even writing a request to the Home Office to grant her British citizenship.<\/p>\n
But she then won a scholarship with the IOC refugee team, and was the first female boxer to represent the team at a Games.<\/p>\n
Ngamba made her amateur debut aged 20 in 2018 and would go on accumulate 26 wins and just five losses.<\/p>\n
She won the English national championships three times in that period.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n