Somali women gives birth on sidewalk in Italy

[HELWAA]

Subxanallah...soomali ma saana oo danbaysay..

[Keyse_0208]

This was back in 1992, but still...

and she named her son Davide

what a Dumb B'itch.. these gaalo didn't even give the courtesy to take her to hospital and she goes and names her kid after them.. dumb ass xaliimoos

[Slussen]

Waa markaan Somalinimada neci jirey

[wastegal]

Silly Woman. If She Knew She Ws About To Pop. She Should Of Stayed At Home. Like Any Other Normal Woman Would do.

[Hyperactive]

Allah kariim.

[Arsenal_Man]

her ceeb must have been sore on that italian concrete, man

[Mizzy_Flame]

her ceeb must have been sore on that italian concrete, man

[Aliyah99]

Maybe the kid was half italian? that would explain the name

Italy is one of the most racist societies in europe

[American-Suufi]

This was the conditions of Somalis in italy 5 years ago, today it is worse.

Somali Refugees Find a New Kind of Hardship in Italy

For a bed, two men share a spot on the hood of a green Fiat hatchback in the compound. One of them is Barre Muhammad Abdi, just 21, whose route to his damp and dirty mattress is nothing short of epic: he fled the warlords and bullet-chipped palaces of Mogadishu last year, crossed the Sahara and then paid $800 to sail from Libya in a boat of refugees north to Italy. Two people among the 140 died, he said, in four wandering days across the sea.

''I came to Italy because I thought I would find a better life,'' he said in his native language. ''I didn't find this good life.''
On a recent morning, Mr. Abdi was one of about 55 Somali refugees sleeping on the grounds of the disused embassy as the weather turned wet and sour. They slept inside a garage swept to remarkable tidiness, on an open patio packed two to a cot and in a hallway leading into the embassy's offices, the inside of which has been locked since Somalia's last stable government crumbled nearly 14 years ago. The embassy, the men's only alternative to the street, was relatively empty. A few weeks ago, 150 or more Somali men slept there, the refugees said''Some of the people in Libya call us and ask us, 'How are things there?' or they want to ask us, 'Do you think we should cross to Sicily?''' said Abdi Farah, 36, who came to Italy across the Mediterranean last year. ''I say: 'Don't leave. There is nothing here for you.'''
''I am very sorry for those who are arriving now,'' he added. ''The Italian government doesn't treat refugees with humanity.''

So mostly they wait, socialize in a handful of Somali restaurants, eat on charity or from money earned by Somali women who clean houses or try their luck in more generous European nations. Then they are often shipped back to Italy. In just over a year, Mr. Farah has been expelled twice from England, once from Norway and, most recently, from Ireland in May. Since then, he has stayed at the embassy.

''That is where we live,'' he said, standing on a patio barely protected from the sky and crammed with six musty cots and four sleeping bags on the ground, a few of them lumpy with sleepers inside. ''The rain last night was bad. It has been quite some time that we have lived like this. We have no water, no electricity.''
There is one bathroom with only cold water, and the line can be two hours long. A few have prepaid cellphones, which they charge for free at a cafe down the street. A worker in the cafe and a few other neighbors said the Somalis were so quiet it seemed that not more than a half a dozen were staying there.
They may be nearly invisible, but they are still reminders of both an unsolved problem in Europe and the extraordinary risks people will take, legal or not, to find a better life.
Fuad Ahmad, 18, who says he wants to become a doctor, fled Mogadishu in 2003 because of the danger and the lack of schools. Like Mr. Abdi, he paid $800 to an Arab middleman to cross to Italy from Libya in October in one of two plastic boats lashed together carrying, he said, about 140 people.

''The Arab man told us we would be in Italian territory in 24 hours,'' he said. ''But that didn't happen.''
On the third day, the boats separated and two children on his boat died. On the fourth day, he said, a 30-year-old man drank sea water and died. Fifteen days after they left Libya, they were rescued, but 11 people had died along the way. The second boat, which he said set sail with 105 people on board, arrived with 13 bodies and only 15 survivors. The case filled Italians with guilt, and Italian politicians promised greater sympathy for migrants and an end to the treacherous crossings, which claim hundreds of lives each year.
But Mr. Ahmad said he got no help. So he left for Sweden, where he said he began school. A few weeks ago, he was returned to Italy under a new law that requires asylum seekers to be returned to the country where they first entered Europe. He is now sleeping in the embassy grounds on a cardboard box with blankets plucked from the trash.

''When I came here I was told that because I came through that disaster that I would be helped,'' he said. ''It is very hard to live here. The cold weather is coming. And for a young person who would like to study and create a life, there are no possibilities.''
He said this was not the life he came to Europe for. He said he argued when some Somalis complained that Italy did not give them a place to stay, saying he did not want handouts. ''If you have a job,'' Mr. Ali said, ''you can have a house.''

For the conservative government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, this movement from Italy to other European countries proves his government's central point: that Italy bears a disproportionate burden of migration given its closeness to Africa, and that there must be a unified European immigration policy. One such proposal is deeply dividing European governments: Italy, Britain and Germany support the establishment of so-called reception centers in North Africa so asylum cases can be processed outside Europe.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.h ... gewanted=3

[American-Suufi]

2009
Italy's Berlusconi compares refugee conditions to Nazi death camps.

Silvio Berlusconi says it is more humane to send migrant boats back to Libya than let them enter Italy because of the unbearable conditions African refugees have to endure, which he compares to those in Nazi death camps.

Italy's holding centers for immigrants are like "concentration camps," Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said in an apparent justification of his country's new practice of deporting to Libya migrants picked up at sea in international waters. He added that it was more humane to send migrant boats back to Libya than to let them enter Italy.
Berlusconi was speaking at a joint news conference on Tuesday with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, who said the priority should be to avoid humanitarian disasters at sea but stressed that the rights of asylum seekers should be respected.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4266313,00.html

somali refugees in latvia attacked by skinheads.

Skinheads attacked two Somali refugees
Jan 05, 2007
By TBT staff

RIGA - Two Somali refugees on Jan. 3 were attacked by skinheads in the Latvian capital Riga, reported Latvian daily Neatkariga on Friday [Jan. 5].
Several skinheads dressed in military-style clothing addressed the Somali refugees in Russian in the tunnel by the central market in Riga. The Somalis did not respond and wanted to pass by, but the skinheads did not let them go. They encircled them and punched them. Even though there were also other people around, nobody interrupted the violence.
The Somalis turned to the police and the police has launched an investigation.

http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/17084/

Somali refugees protest in Nepal

Somali refugees living in Nepal have been demonstrating in the capital Kathmandu to gain official recognition by the government.
They say their lives are miserable because they are not allowed to work and are threatened with heavy fines if they try to leave the country.
Many of the Somalis say they were tricked into coming to Nepal by people traffickers in Mogadishu. Some say they were told they were being flown to the Italian city of Naples.
The government says it is aware of the refugees and is discussing what to do about them.

Refugee convention

There are about 70 Somalis in Nepal, many of them children.
All have lost relatives in Somalia's civil war and one man here is disabled, wounded by a bullet.
The UN refugee agency in Nepal has recognised most of them as refugees, but the Nepal government has not, as it has not signed the UN refugee convention.
Instead it treats them as illegal immigrants, liable to pay huge fines for overstaying their visas if and when they move to other countries.
None of these people intended to come to Nepal. They paid money to self-styled agents in Mogadishu who deceived them about where they were going.
About 15 say they were told they were flying to the Italian city of Naples by men deliberately using the name's similarity to the name Nepal.

Only after arriving did they realise their mistake.
Mohammed Said, 11, came to Nepal with his parents and seven brothers.
"We came to Nepal to save our lives," he said.
"We want the home minister to waive our overstaying fees. The school fees are a problem and my father doesn't have a job.
"We don't get to eat food twice a day."
There are other refugee or asylum-seeking communities in Nepal from countries including Iraq, Pakistan and Iran. Many of them have been trafficked in a similar way and some are imprisoned here.
Nepal's home ministry spokesman, Mod Raj Dotel, declined to give the BBC an interview.
But he said the government was "well aware of the Somali refugees" and was discussing what to do about them.





http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7682532.stm

[American-Suufi]

when they come to britain, holland and nordic countries, they start joining osama bin laden jihad. who wants somali refugees? let them give birth on the side-walks like stray dogs.

[surrender]

sad! somalis are refugees everywhere, do the Italian government give out benefits and council houses?

[American-Suufi]

sad! somalis are refugees everywhere, do the Italian government give out benefits and council houses?

get a job and get out of the ghetto.

[HELWAA]

Dadka italy taga way oo dhamatay...hadey meel kalena iska dhiibana farahooda ayaa la soo hela badankooda.Laakin kuwa halkan yemaada qof sharci leh bay guursadaan...khiyaamo ....ilaahyo na astur.

[Monsieur]

There are some disgusting bastards in the South of Europe, atleast the Dutch, Scandinavian and English etc are compassionate

Bastards!