Eleven Somalis won seats in municipal elections in Finland yesterday, increasing their representation from six.

It shows that more Somalis are getting involved in politics in the Scandinavian state, and their influence has slowly grown since the first batch arrived as refugees in the early 1990s,

Somalis number only about 18,000 in a country with a population of about five million. 

Some of the Somalis elected yesterday hope to become MPs one day.