Yasmiin's Story

Yasmiin had a small restaurant in her home town in Somalia. One day she was kidnapped by some men and raped. After that she became ostracised in her community, people stopped talking to her and stopped coming to her restaurant. She could not stay there any longer and decided to leave Somalia, taking the smuggler route through Yemen and Sudan to Libya, hoping to reach Europe. She was imprisoned in Libya and eventually evacuated by UNHCR to Niger where he is waiting for re settlement.

"The man took me outside every day and asked me if I would pay the money." Yasmiin recalls

"I used to tell him to wait, that it was coming. He undressed me in front of everybody, he took off my hijab, and poured water on my head. He put my head inside the bucket and hit my legs with a stick. Finally, my mother called me and said she didn’t have anything."

Sagal’s Story: Living in limbo

Sagal is a young Somali woman who fled her homeland because her family demanded her daughter should be circumcised. She refused. She says she is an educated woman and does not want her children to go through what she had been forced to endure as a child.

Yasmiin's Story

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