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Labour MP Nick Raynsford said that, when Mr Coulson was at Downing Street, the cabinet secretary was alerted to evidence of illegal phone hacking, covert surveillance and hostile media briefing against a senior government official - the cabinet secretary later denied it. Those conditions include more than 30% of children being acutely malnourished, and four children out of every 10,000 dying daily. that they can operate unfettered," Mr Steinberg told the BBC. Nearly half the Somali population - 3.7 million people - were in crisis, he said, with most of them in the south. Earlier, the Met was accused by MPs of a "catalogue of failures" in the News of the World phone-hacking inquiry.

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Drought, conflict and poverty have now combined to produce the necessary conditions for famine. 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 deputy administrator of the US Agency for International Development, Donald Steinberg, said the aid must not benefit al-Shabab. The UK Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell, said the response by many European and developed countries to the crisis in the Horn of Africa had been "derisory and dangerously inadequate". Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers said the move came after a "significant increase in the workload" over the past fortnight. Save the Children's Sonia Zambakides told the BBC the situation in Somalia was shocking.

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"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." During Wednesday's House of Commons debate on the phone-hacking scandal, MPs called on News International to publish the full exchanges about e-mails examined by the legal firm. News International's parent company News Corporation has also confirmed it has stopped paying the legal fees of former private detective Glenn Mulcaire, who was convicted of phone hacking on behalf of the News of the World in 2007. She said there had been a "surge of inquiries and requests for assistance from the public and solicitors". The BBC's Africa correspondent Andrew Harding says the emotive word "famine" is used rarely and carefully by humanitarian organisations, and it is the first time since 1992 that the word has been applied to a situation in Somalia. The UK Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell, said the response by many European and developed countries to the crisis in the Horn of Africa had been "derisory and dangerously inadequate". BBC Africa analyst Martin Plaut says this marks a considerable change in policy from Washington. 'Dangerously inadequate'

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News International's parent company News Corporation has also confirmed it has stopped paying the legal fees of former private detective Glenn Mulcaire, who was convicted of phone hacking on behalf of the News of the World in 2007. Prime Minister David Cameron told MPs that "with hindsight" he would not have hired ex-News of the World editor Andy Coulson as his communications chief, in the closest he has come to an apology. In other developments in the phone-hacking saga: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said new funds to help the country were desperately needed. Nearly half the Somali population - 3.7 million people - were in crisis, he said, with most of them in the south. She said some of the mothers had walked up to six days with no food to try to find help. that they can operate unfettered," Mr Steinberg told the BBC.

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In other developments in the phone-hacking saga: Meanwhile, News of the World owner News International said it had authorised law firm Harbottle & Lewis to answer any questions from Scotland Yard and the Commons home affairs committee about its work for the company. "What we need is assurances from the World Food Programme and from other agencies, the United Nations or other agencies, both public and in the non-governmental sector, who are willing to go into Somalia who will tell us affirmatively that they are not being taxed by al-Shabab, they are not being subjected to bribes from al-Shabab, Some children look like skeletons while others have swollen legs and hands, he adds.