It’s been nine months since Mariam Soumah, a 23-year-old Guinean woman, says she last saw her baby girl Sabina. The mother is in Guinea, while her daughter is — against her will — in an orphanage in Belarus.
Several months ago, Belarus forcibly deported the young migrant mother to her West African homeland without her baby, according to Soumah and rights groups that have taken up her case.
The reports drew condemnation by UN experts, rights groups and Guinean diplomats.
“I begged them not to do it,” Soumah told AFP during an interview in the slums of Guinea’s capital Conakry, swiping through recent photos on her phone of Sabina — who turned one in November — wearing a red dress.
In a bid to escap
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