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But US aid officials say assurances must be given that the insurgents will not interfere with its distribution. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said new funds to help the country were desperately needed. One woman he met arrived after a long trip, much of it on foot, carrying her one-and-a-half-year-old son on her back - only to realise, when she arrived, that he was dead. "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. "I was talking to mothers with children, the children looked maybe nine months to one year old - the mothers were telling the children were three and four years old, so they are absolutely tiny." Mr Cameron said the public inquiry would be widened to examine broadcasters and social media and named the panel