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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. She said there had been a "surge of inquiries and requests for assistance from the public and solicitors". Some children look like skeletons while others have swollen legs and hands, he adds.

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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. Al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda-affiliated group which controls large swathes of south and central Somalia, had imposed a ban on foreign aid agencies in its territories in 2009, but has recently allowed limited access. The UN said the humanitarian situation in Somalia's southern Bakool and Lower Shabelle districts had deteriorated rapidly and declared them to be suffering a famine.

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Downing Street confirms that the prime minister received and responded to a letter from Labour MP Tom Watson last October, in which he had raised concerns about Mr Coulson Families have built their own homes at the camp with tree branches, wood and plastic sheets, he says. But US aid officials say assurances must be given that the insurgents will not interfere with its distribution. Mr Cameron said the public inquiry would be widened to examine broadcasters and social media and named the panel Al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda-affiliated group which controls large swathes of south and central Somalia, had imposed a ban on foreign aid agencies in its territories in 2009, but has recently allowed limited access. The US considers al-Shabab a terrorist group and last year stopped aid to the large area of Somalia it controls.

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Those conditions include more than 30% of children being acutely malnourished, and four children out of every 10,000 dying daily. The UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs for Somalia said the ongoing conflict in Somalia had made it extremely difficult for agencies to access communities in the south, which are controlled by al-Shabab. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that Washington would provide an extra $28m in emergency aid to counter the famine. The protester accused of throwing shaving foam at Rupert Murdoch is charged with a public order offence Downing Street and Buckingham Palace denied claims by Labour MP Chris Bryant that royal officials raised concerns about Mr Coulson's appointment

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Downing Street confirms that the prime minister received and responded to a letter from Labour MP Tom Watson last October, in which he had raised concerns about Mr Coulson Those conditions include more than 30% of children being acutely malnourished, and four children out of every 10,000 dying daily. In Somalia's war-ravaged capital, Mogadishu, the BBC's Mohamed Mwalimu says more than 4,000 people are crammed into one camp, called Safety. Mr Cameron said the public inquiry would be widened to examine broadcasters and social media and named the panel 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. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said new funds to help the country were desperately needed. In April 2010 US President Barack Obama issued an executive order naming al-Shabab a terrorist organisation, meaning no US aid could go to areas under its control, our analyst adds.