Making my presentation at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) meeting. Somalia is committed to working together with IOM in order to support migrant routes including safe sustainable returns and re-integration. We continue #HoldingHands.
In 2022, Ambassador Mariam Yassin Hagi Yussuf, was appointed as the Special Presidential Envoy for Migration, Returns & Children’s Rights – Office of the President of the Federal Government of Somalia. Her office provides leadership in the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Somali Migration through a Whole Government Approach.
Ambassador Mariam Yassin Hagi Yussuf, Special Presidential Envoy for Migration, Returns & Children’s Rights – Office of the President of the Federal Government of Somalia. Amb. Mariam Yassin was born in Mogadishu in 1977 and was the last born of a family of 5. Unfortunately, when the war in Somalia erupted in 1991 her father was executed due to clan-based clashes and Mariam, a young teenager at the time was forced to flee Mogadishu and over-night became an Internally displaced person.
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