US nurse on migrant rescue ship reunited with Darfur boy she saved 15 years ago

Nurse Mary Jo Frawley embraces Omar as they are reunited 15 years later on a migrant rescue ship. [AFP]

At the height of Sudan's Darfur war in 2004 - then the world's worst conflict - an American nurse tended to a baby injured in the leg. Fifteen years later, she was miraculously reunited with him on a migrant rescue ship working in the Mediterranean.

The Ocean Viking, run by charities MSF and SOS Mediterranee, had rescued four boats of migrants off the Libyan coast between Aug 9 and 12. One of the 356 migrants was a 17-year-old boy named Omar whom MSF nurse Mary Jo Frawley had healed as a toddler.