A 22-year-old Liberian woman has been reunited with her mother in Lincoln, 20 years after they were separated.

Angeline Wleh, who is known as "Amama," was embraced by her mother Thursday at the Lincoln Airport.

Anna Furkay sang praises to the heavens in her joy at seeing her grown-up baby.

The reunion came after years of paperwork and DNA tests to ensure the women are indeed mother and daughter.

They were helped by Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska and other groups.

Originally from a farming village in Liberia, Furkay was separated from her family in the early 1990s during the civil war in which hundreds of thousands died and a million people fled their homes.