article_snippet.sent: Aden, Yemen (CNN)It didn't look like much, but we'd been told it was typical of the kind of craft ferrying the route between Djibouti and Aden.
article_snippet.sent: Vessel was called Mecca — after the holy city.
article_snippet.sent: Vessel meant hugging the coastline, trying to stay as much as possible out of the deeper water in the middle of the Gulf of Aden where the world's navies seemed to be squaring off.
article_snippet.sent: It was time to go into town to see what life was like for the people of Aden.
highlights_snippet.sent: CNN's Nima Elbagir describes the boat journey from Djbouti to Aden .
  