Stowaway's Mother Wants to Reunite With Her Kids

The mother of Yahya Abdi, the Somali-American teen, who stowed away in the wheel well of a Hawaii-bound flight from California, says her son was trying to reach her in Africa. Speaking to VOA's Somali service from “Sheed Dheer” a refugee camp in eastern Ethiopia, Ubah Mohamed Abdulle, expressed shock and said she burst into tears when she heard the news of her son’s miraculous trip. “I felt bad that he risked his life,” she told VOA. “ I was told that he did this because of...

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