The migrant trail in a wheelchair: a Syrian teen's story of hope

She tackled the gruelling 2,000-kilometre (1,200-mile) migrant trail in a wheelchair, translating along the way for other refugees using English she learned from a US soap opera.

Syrian teen Nujeen Mustafa is not one to shy away from a challenge.

Now living safely in Germany, the 17-year-old has set herself a new goal: to prove Chancellor Angela Merkel right.

"We will do our best to prove to everyone that Germany was right from the beginning," Nujeen told AFP in a Skype interview from her new home just outside Cologne.

Her's is a story so remarkable that even Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai has hailed her as an inspiration.

"She says I'm her hero, which feels a little weird to me because she has shown that girls can change the world," Nujeen says, almost apologetically.

The young Syrian, who has cerebral palsy, has chronicled her...