Kankou Keita-Mansare: Keita-Mansare

Canada Dept: Family matriarch Kankou Keita-Mansare learned Friday that she and her children will be allowed to remain in Canada on humanitarian grounds. The family arrived in Laval in 2007, and sought refugee status on the grounds that the 17- and 18-year-old daughters faced genital mutilation and forced marriages in Guinea, according to CTV. The family s ordeal began in 2009, when their asylum application was denied, as was their application for leave and judicial review and a mother and her five children have been told they can remain in Canada permanently, after they were nearly deported to their native Guinea four times since arriving in Quebec. That s the way it is in my country, Keita-Mansare, speaking in French, told Montreal on Saturday. Keita-Mansare said after her five-year battle, she is happy to stay in Canada. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.