Stowaway boy's refugee mom cries for son

The Somali mother's home is a small shelter with a frame of sticks covered by ragged blankets on the dusty grounds of a refugee camp.
It was to her that her 15-year-old son wanted to travel to on an impossible journey as a stowaway on a plane from California.
Ubah Mohammed Abdule has not seen her boy, who was hospitalised in Hawaii after landing there in the wheel well of a jetliner, for eight long years.
Wearing a black cloth head covering with white diamond pattern, Abdule wept as she stood before her flimsy shelter with her meager possessions inside and spoke about her son.

She told journalists from The Associated Press who travelled to see her in remote eastern Ethiopia that she was alarmed by the dangerous method of travel her son undertook.
Those who stow away in wheel wells of airplanes have little chance of surviving, and those who attempt it are often Africans trying to get to a better life in Europe or America.

But Yahya Abdi had been unhappy in California and desperately missed his mother, those who know his family there said.
So on April 20, Abdi hopped a fence at San Jose International Airport and climbed into a wheel well of a jetliner. It was bound for Hawaii, the wrong way. He has not spoken publicly about the ordeal.

"I knew he was an intelligent boy who has strong affections for me. I also knew he always wanted to see me, but I know his father won't let them contact me at all," Abdule said.
Abdule has not even spoken to her son by phone. The boy's father has lied to their three children, the mother said, telling them that she's dead.