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BOSASSO, SOMALIA- DECEMBER 2007.Having spent the last five days at sea and nearly three weeks traveling on the road, 26 year old Ahmed Murr recovers along with fellow survivors in the confines of a smuggler Omar's safe house in Bossaso town.Having survived being shot in the forehead during heavy fighting in Somalia's capitol, Ahmed escaped the city with a group of friends. Coming from Mogadishu, they had few fears about the journey that lay ahead of them.He thinks his friends are now in Yemen having crossed the Gulf of Aden in the boats of Omar's men- but he's not sure they are still alive. Ahmed was with them but he never made it ashore. Approaching a beach on Yemen's eastern coast in the dead of night, the tiny fishing boat came under attack as Yemeni soldiers fired randomly into the dark sea. He was one of the few survivors. Despite the captain being shot, the two remaining crew managed to turn the boat around and navigate their way back across the seas. Sailing with the captain's body and the five tahrib who had remained on board, it took them three more days to make it back to Bossaso without drinking water or food.Ahmed Murr is now ready to try again. He hopes to spend a few days resting and has asked Omar to help him cross for a second time. There is no going back. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Alixandra Fazzina)