‘I fled to Ireland from UK to avoid being deported to Rwanda’ – migrant living in Dublin’s tent city
Three weeks ago Abdul Mhammed (20) took a bus from London to Liverpool, then a ferry to Belfast before getting a second bus to Dublin.
A tent belonging to an asylum seeker is seen beside the International Protection Office (IPO) (REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne)
Home for Abdul Mhammed, a 20-year-old Channel migrant from Sudan, is a blue tent with frayed edges in an encampment that has sprouted up around the main asylum office in the heart of Dublin.
Seagulls pick at litter surrounding overflowing wheelie bins, while tents, cloaked in blue tarpaulin are pitched in rows four deep, around the capital’s International Protection Office (IPO). The acrid whiff of urine and waste hangs in the air
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