Thank you Ayaanle for giving me the opportunity to share my story.
Ten years down the line my life has changed – a lot. I no longer carry the weight of anger and resentment. Now my path is laced with forgiveness, loving and caring motherhood, supportive community engagement, and a determined voice of the voiceless as the Presidential Envoy for Migration.
Thank you Allah SWT for the strength and determination you have bestowed upon me.
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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