Aden Hussein Hassan with his daughter Asmo, 2 days, son Mohammed, 4, and daughter Adno, pose for a picture inside their apartment in Columbus, Ohio, U.S., August 8, 2018. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
WASHINGTON/KAKUMA, KENYA (Reuters) - On Jan. 19, 2017, Aden Hassan’s long wait to start a new life ended when he stepped off a plane in Columbus, Ohio, half a world away from the Kenyan refugee camp where he had lived for a decade.
Years earlier in Mogadishu, Somalia, Hassan’s father, a community organizer, was shot dead by the Islamist militants he opposed. A few years later, a younger brother and sister were killed by gunmen while walking home from school. After Hassan's mother survived an assassination attempt, she fled with her surviving children to neighboring Kenya.
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