Thursday March 30, 2023
Across Somalia, unregulated “camps” promising to teach rebellious young people discipline and religious education have been advertising themselves to parents in the west from the Somali diaspora. But what happens behind their closed doors?
For more than a year, the assistant editor of the Guardian’s First Edition newsletter, Nimo Omer, has been investigating the rise of these centres. She tells Hannah Moore why she fears hundreds of European and US young people may have been sent to them – and why they are so dangerous.
Hannah Moore speaks to Fadumo, a British teenager who says she spent months in one – and was beaten and chained up. Is the British government doing enough to protect young people like her?