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Overview: University student Al-Zubier Adem fled human rights abuses in Eritrea as a teenager, making a perilous journey across Africa and Europe to build a new life in the UK. Here he tells his story and calls for a more humane government policy towards people fleeing conflict and persecution.

I came to the UK in early 2014 as a refugee at the age of 17. I left Eritrea in late 2013 when I was in 10th grade, so I didn’t even finish school. The Eritrean regime is not nice. You have to do military service or leave the country – there are no other options. readmore