28/04/2014
Stowaway boy's refugee mom cries for son
SHEDDER REFUGEE CAMP, Ethiopia ? The Somali mother's home is a frame of sticks covered by ragged blankets on the dusty grounds of this refugee camp. It was here that her 15-year-old son wanted to travel on an impossible journey as a stowaway on a plane from California. Ubah Mohammed Abdule hasn't seen her boy ? who was hospitalized in Hawaii after landing there in the wheel well of a jetliner ? for eight long years. Wearing a black and white head covering, Abdule wept as she stood before the flimsy shelter holding her meager possessions and spoke about her son. She told journalists from The Associated Press, who traveled to see her in remote eastern Ethiopia, that she was alarmed by the...
