Councillor Lilian Seenoi-Barr is set to become the first Black mayor in Northern Ireland. The politician, who arrived in Northern Ireland as a ____, has been selected as the ____ mayor of ____ City and Strabane District Council. This comes after she made ____ as the first Black politician to be ____ to public office in Northern Ireland last year, when she was elected as councillor in the ____ district of Derry. Hailing her groundbreaking ____ appointment on Monday, ____ councillor Ms Seenoi-Barr said she's, "proud to be a ____ woman and a Derry girl". She went on: "I cannot express how much the ____ of serving as mayor of Derry and Strabane means to me." At the height of the global ____ ____ ____ protests in 2021, the councillor organised ____ and spoke out against systemic ____. Derry and ____ mayor-designate Lilian Seenoi-Barr credits her ____ success to her ____. Speaking to The ____ News, Ms Seenoi-Barr, who described her ____ as ____, said she was born in Narok- a small town in ____. "I am from the ____ people," said Ms Seenoi-Barr with evident pride. "My parents, my ____ sisters and ____ brothers, and myself, come from a village called Ol Omokishi. Ms Seenoi-Barr's decision to leave Kenya was heavily ____ by the fact she was a Mum of a young boy, Brian, who had ____. She added, "It was a very ____ job I was doing back home. The ____ of girls was quite ____ and quite dangerous. When I was doing it by myself, I didn't care much about the ____ but when I had my son, there were ____ made towards both of us and, as a Mum, I had to think ____ about what was most important. Was it to continue the work or ____ my child? So, I had to leave. I came to Northern Ireland in 2010 as a ____ at the age of 28," said Ms Seenoi-Barr, who subsequently met and married her husband Patrick. She ____ that many of today's refugees have had the same ____. She added: "They are going through a very ____ time back in their countries but just because they cannot prove it as I did, they are staying in the ____ for a very long time." Once she got her refugee ____, she described Derry as 'becoming her home'. "I made my home here and obviously I had a lot of ____ trying to settle with my son, but the people of Derry really ____ up for me," she said.

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