Dried-up carcasses of goats, cows and donkeys litter the ground near the modest thatched huts in southeastern Ethiopia. The worst drought to hit the Horn of Africa in decades is pushing 20 million people towards starvation, according to the UN, destroying herders' age-old way of life and leaving many children suffering from severe malnutrition as it rips families apart.

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