There is a real risk of many people dying from famine this year due to climate change, displacement, the effects of COVID-19 and the Ukraine-Russia conflict.

In East Africa, crippling droughts have made food insecurity even worse.

The United Nations World Food Program says children are dying from a lack of food in Somalia.

CGTN's Caroline Malone spoke to the Somali Special Presidential Envoy for Drought Response at the UN headquarters in New York.

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