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BASATINE, YEMEN- MARCH 2008 .To realise and make sense of what he has been through, twenty-year-old Mohamed Noor wrote down what he witnessed in the tiny address book that he has carried with him since he fled his home in Johar, Somalia. Travelling to Yemen with smugglers, Mohamed was the only survivor from inside the tiny hull of the fishing boat where he and his fellow passengers were tied down. .âÄœWhen I left Bossaso it was Sunday, and the coming day would be Monday. On the boat there were 140 passengers and the trip took us 32 hours. Then after 32 hours, somehow the boat capsized. When the boat capsized it was night and of the 140 passengers, there were 29 women - only 5 survived. And the number of men were 111 - only 5 survived and those survivors were swimming for at least 8 hours to the shore. When the boat capsized it turned over, and some men got on the back of the boat and others they swam. Some others died.âÄ (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Alixandra Fazzina)