'Scared' World Cup migrants face Russia deportation

A Senegalese fan poses outside the Ekaterinburg Arena ahead of the World Cup Group H football match between Japan and Senegal on June 24, 2018. PHOTO | AFP

In a cramped apartment on the outskirts of Moscow, Lamin has little more than the clothes and the Bible he brought with him when he came to Russia on a temporary World Cup visa last summer.

The 23-year-old Gambian shares the two-bedroom flat with nine other people —the youngest a newborn baby girl, the daughter of a Congolese flatmate.