Razak Iyal and Seidu Mohammed officially became Canadian citizens earlier this month. The two friends almost lost their lives as they walked across the U.S. border in the freezing cold to get to Canada, back in 2016.
, near Emerson, Man. They now live in separate units in a central Winnipeg apartment complex.
Iyal said the occasion brought back memories of his chance encounter on Dec. 24, 2016, with the truck driver who stumbled upon the men that fateful evening and called 911 on their behalf."I asked this guy, 'Am I in Canada? Are we in Canada?' And he told us, 'Yes.'" "And today, we are Canadian citizens. That is very, very amazing thing that happened in my life," Iyal said.
Mohammed, who was outed as a bisexual man during a soccer training camp, worried for his safety. Ghana's law forbids "unnatural carnal knowledge," and while that doesn't lead directly to prosecutions, human rights groups saidThe men's near-fatal bid for refuge in Canada drew international attention and shone a light on the risks that thousands of asylum seekers coming from the United States were willing to take to get to Canada. Their refugee claims were accepted in 2017.
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