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Middle East correspondent Tom Joyner in Gedo, Somalia

Somalia is on the brink of famine, with children dying of malnutrition and hundreds of thousands of families displaced

Kadjiay Moalim Mayow trudged through the dawn with her four children in tow, her knotted stomach driving her feet mechanically underneath.

Ahead and behind her was a convoy of others from her village near Dinsoor in the southern Somali desert. Everyone was silent and exhausted.

The only sounds were their rhythmic footsteps in the gravel, and the occasional braying of a donkey.

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