The Olympics Games are being broadcast live in one of the largest refugee camps in the world to give residents the opportunity to cheer on the Refugee Olympic Team.

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Olympics organisers, in collaboration with non-profit organisation FilmAid and Amnesty International, have set up ongoing screenings in the Kakuma refugee camp in northeast Kenya for the almost 200,000 people living there.

Half the team's 10 athletes have passed through the Kakuma camp or were living there at their time of selection.

According to Olympics.org, the Games will be broadcast in the camp across the full 16 days of competition, giving the residents an opportunity to "share the emotions of the 10,500 athletes who will compete in Rio".

FilmAid's managing director Keefe Murren said the Refugee Olympic Team project would give refugees the much needed opportunity to "contribute to the rest of the world".

"We applaud the IOC for giving refugee athletes a chance to compete, for calling attention to the refugee crisis and for recognising the need to support communities of displaced people around the world," Mr Murren said in a statement.

Half of Refugee Olympic Team, flag bearer from Kakuma

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The five Kakuma athletes are all competing in track and field, including flag bearer Rose Nathike Lokonyen who fled to Kenya from South Sudan when she was 10, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

The Tegla Loroupe Foundation organised trials in the camp, and the five were picked to compete alongside refugee athletes from Syria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Ethiopia.

FilmAid was founded by filmmakers in 1999 in response to the Kosovo war, with the stated aim of providing refugees with "information about their rights, safety, health and well-being", through "film, radio and journalism created by refugees".