Refugee mum living in Glasgow reunited with family from Sudan after decade apart

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A mother living in Glasgow has been reunited with her remaining family from war-torn Sudan after a decade apart.Kaltouma Ibrahim, who lost three children during conflict in her country, was granted leave to remain in 2019, giving her the right to live and work in the UK.Last year the PA news agency reported how Mrs Ibrahim had not seen her husband Hassan, son Nasir or daughter Awadia since they were separated 10 years ago.At the time she had been waiting for 15 months for a decision from the Home Office on whether she could bring her remaining family from Sudan to Scotland.Her husband and two children have since been granted permission to live in the UK and moved to Glasgow to be together again after a campaign led by the Church of Scotland.Mrs Ibrahim, 51, said: “I am very happy to have been finally reunited with my family after so many years apart and they are now safe living with me in Glasgow.“I am very grateful and thankful to all the people who have helped me in so many ways to make this happen and we can finally start a new chapter in our lives.”Speaking on behalf of herself and her brother, Awadia, 16, said: “We are both very happy to be reunited with our mother and be together again after so many years.“We feel very safe in Glasgow, we like the city very much, especially Glasgow Green, and all the people we have met so far have been very friendly, supportive and welcoming.”Mrs Ibrahim was born and raised in Chad, where she met her Sudanese husband, but the couple were forced to flee the country after his life was repeatedly threatened.They moved to neighbouring Sudan but civil war forced the family to move again to Libya in 2014, where they secured passage on a boat bound for Italy across the Mediterranean Sea.T