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Nearly half the Somali population - 3.7 million people - were in crisis, he said, with most of them in the south. She said the US had already provided $431m this year in emergency aid to the Horn of Africa, but that was "not enough". "The overall requirement is $1.6bn (�990m) for Somalia, roughly $300m is needed in the next two months to provide an adequate response to famine-affected areas. Children and adults are dying at an appalling rate," Mr Ban said. In other developments in the phone-hacking saga: Save the Children's Sonia Zambakides told the BBC the situation in Somalia was shocking.