Debora Kayembe, 45, a human rights lawyer born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo who lives in Scotland, poses for portraits at her home in Bonnyrigg, southeast of Edinburgh, on February 11, 2021. It’s been more than 16 years since Debora Kayembe fled her home in the Democratic Republic of Congo after learning that a gun-running militia group that she had helped to expose wanted to kill her. Since then, Kayembe sought asylum in Britain, started a family and settled in Edinburgh, where she worked as a human rights lawyer and political activist. Kayembe has now been appointed the University of Edinburgh’s first ever black rector.
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