AllAfrica News: Ethiopia
By Francis Markus Medenine, Tunisia
A rich spicy smell wafts from the simple kitchen, where a stew and a saucepan of beans are bubbling on the gas rings. But here on the fourth floor of this hostel for mostly African refugees and asylum seekers, although the men’s basic needs are taken care of, there’s a sense of life in limbo.
„I would like my children to be able to live in safety in a western country,“ pleads Yusuf* from Somalia, who is one of the nearly 40 people housed in the building. He says he fled Somalia because the fact that he comes from a minority tribe was making his life increasingly difficult.
