First families lose their land, then their livestock and then their children; that’s the stark reality of life right now in the Horn of Africa, where millions of people have been hit by successive failed rainy seasons.

According to UN Children’s Fund UNICEF, hundreds of thousands of Somali children are in desperate need of treatment for life-threatening severe acute malnutrition, more even than during the brutal 2011 famine.

With more details, here’s Rania Dagash, UNICEF Deputy Director for eastern and southern Africa, speaking to UN News’s Daniel Johnson.