 'They passed it around to several people and they said 'no this is not the same person' and they took it off me,'. Whilst staff at the airport refused the teenager onward travel, they encouraged her mum Aliya Ahmed, 47, to make the journey without Mahna, abandoning her. The mum refused and the pair pushed to have their passport returned but was told it would be sent to the British embassy. This kickstarted a he){kind=link}
Mahna Mohamed was looking forward to returning home to London after spending two years in Somalia, her parents’ homeland, but instead Ethiopian authorities confiscated her passport and left her stranded in a foreign country with no money
A 14-year-old British girl was trapped abroad, fearing she might return home, after authorities took her passport and told her to âgo back to Somalia ‘.
But following an ordeal last more than a week, Mahna Mohamed is now safely back home, thanks to The Mirror. After we stepped in, Foreign Office officials provided her with the necessary documentation to travel.
Manha was born in Leyton, London, and grew up, went to school and made friends in the capital.
Aged 12, she decided to travel to Somalia, where her parents were from, along with her mother to learn more about her family and culture.