From child refugee to politician: Finland’s first Somali-born MP
Al Jazeera
Suldaan Said Ahmed, whose family fled the civil war in Somalia, has been attacked by the far right in the Nordic nation and is intent on driving out racism.
In 2008, Suldaan Said Ahmed was 15 when his family arrived in Finland having fled the civil war in Somalia. His childhood memory is filled with haunting acts of violence and displacement. “I saw a dead person being driven in a wheelbarrow,” he told Al Jazeera, recalling the horrific scenes that dominate his last memories of Mogadishu.More Related News