Reports from the Italian city of Firenze indicate that scores of Somali refugees there on Tuesday held demonstrations in the city in protest over poor living standards.
The demonstrators, including women and children, called on the international community to help them leave Italy, where they said they have been experiencing hard living conditions.
“We are demonstrating here to try to attract the attention of the world so that the international community may have full understanding of the terrible living standards we have,” a demonstrator, Fardowa Ighe, told a gathering.
Meanwhile, the Somali ambassador to Italy, Nur Hassan Hussein, said that Somali refugees in Italy are living under hard circumstances and need a change of living conditions.
“When they were leaving from Somalia their dream was to get a better life than that in homeland, but that did not happen—so many of them came to the Somali embassy demanding to be repatriated home,” the Somali diplomat said in an interview with the VOA Somali service on Wednesday.
He said that his embassy will look for a lasting solution for the Somali refugees in Italy who are complaining about poor living conditions.
Thousands of desperate Africans, mostly from Somalia, annually enter Italy, which they use as a gateway to England and Scandinavian countries in search of better lives and jobs. The refugees reach Italy on smuggling boats across the Mediterranean Sea.
Source: www.allheadlinenews.com
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