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New MP Ibrahim Omer's election highlights the challenges refugees from Africa face in New Zealand

  • Written by Samuel Judah Seomeng, Postgraduate student, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
New MP Ibrahim Omer's election highlights the challenges refugees from Africa face in New ZealandIbrahim Omer campaigning with Labour MP Chris Hipkins during NZ's 2020 general election.GettyImages

The election of Labour candidate Ibrahim Omer on October 17 makes him New Zealand’s first African MP and one of only two former refugees to sit in the New Zealand parliament.

Omer originally fled Eritrea for Sudan as a teenager, before being...

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