A Canadian woman made an emotional return home to Toronto on Saturday after being stranded in Kenya since being denied exit in May because authorities alleged she was using someone else’s passport.
Overjoyed to return home after the three-month ordeal she called a “nightmare” finally came to an end, Suaad Haji Mohamud hugged her 12-year-old son tightly after arriving at the airport. She was only allowed to travel after DNA tests showing she was indeed Mohamed Hussein’s mother, proving her identity.
Mohamud’s ordeal began when she traveled to Kenya to visit her mother. When she sought to board a plane to return to Canada in May, Kenyan immigration officials arrested and detained her, accusing her of identity fraud because her lips appeared different than those on the photograph in her four-year-old passport.
After holding her for eight days, Kenyan authorities freed the 31-year-old woman on bail.
“Really it is a bad experience. I have never been in jail, even in my own country,” she said on Wednesday.
Her Kenyan lawyer, Lucas Naikuni, will file a complaint against the Kenyan and Canadian governments, and against KLM airlines, CBC public TV reported.
Mohamud’s case has sparked a debate in Canada, where media have highlighted several cases of Canadian citizens who were held or faced difficulties abroad without Ottawa stepping in to help.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has vowed to launch an investigation into the Canada Border Services Agency handled Mohamud’s case.
Archeologists in Peru on Thursday said they found the 5,000-year-old remains of a noblewoman at the sacred city of Caral, revealing the important role played by women in the oldest center of civilization in the Americas. “What has been discovered corresponds to a woman who apparently had elevated status, an elite woman,” archeologist David Palomino said. The mummy was found in Aspero, a sacred site within the city of Caral that was a garbage dump for more than 30 years until becoming an archeological site in the 1990s. Palomino said the carefully preserved remains, dating to 3,000BC, contained skin, part of the
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Armed with 4,000 eggs and a truckload of sugar and cream, French pastry chefs on Wednesday completed a 121.8m-long strawberry cake that they have claimed is the world’s longest ever made. Youssef El Gatou brought together 20 chefs to make the 1.2 tonne masterpiece that took a week to complete and was set out on tables in an ice rink in the Paris suburb town of Argenteuil for residents to inspect. The effort overtook a 100.48m-long strawberry cake made in the Italian town of San Mauro Torinese in 2019. El Gatou’s cake also used 350kg of strawberries, 150kg of sugar and 415kg of
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