Nearly half the Somali population - 3.7 million people - were in crisis, he said, with most of them in the south. 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. 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". 'Dangerously inadequate' 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. Drought, conflict and poverty have now combined to produce the necessary conditions for famine.11878 9467 4197 22038 7006 27397 7435 5053 40724 36190 42826 41113 48268 6394 12563 49313 24365 26238 4492 12393 26441 24488 39157 34363 155 14761 45357 11674 2580 46122 11520 39423 16626 768 8392 41458 22262 38172 12888 25504 47942 38299 49844 48081 19575 24757 41544 12264 37321 27669 36313 3741 5383 17586 44941 36431 19536 18548 21923 41916 31901 45746 2590 44459 23881 3126 23160 47474 47884 20510 25491 36256 13550 27723 14139 38267 24607 40922 14215 23660 22601 32208 23124 23374 9342 7433 33206 48859 5284 21063 20554 3515 15247 20306 43525 2191 35291 4962 22469 16318 1519 43960 14039 15879 2043 33 39880 26522 3430 6294 11251 28404 4439 47925 17795 49567 21115 27731 34344 16461 18402 24254 41912 25513 49898 21888 20159 42608 34049 12179 2585 19385 17123 47547 22288 28716 17694 7333 21584 9325 16797 6430 45243 48924 10216 42096 48880 17011 2443 43832 29766 7176 19593 5982 47472 25605 2030 37773 15905 28676 28429 47184 42369 40923 3682 40979 11043 6682 24081 38861 30434 13761 5873 24746 49360 12282 29036 42844 15355 7415 22732 3043 39916 40520 31230 45024 49792 11381 21 46474 26651 29598 40816 42750 29667 19412 13829 3900 45025 18190 30259 41899 42588 13009 12379 15812 1409 44638 6421 34459 46340 8861 21507 8648 5456 25175 6875 1741 9080 8465 41108 49511 6665 27509 11557 932 22198 12873 44861 28658 48153 24839 47569 46644 25892 30811 10314 26025 27336 15028 43600 4739 4628 14364 150 17679 7785 31636 36750 4231
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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. 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. 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". 'Dangerously inadequate' 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. Drought, conflict and poverty have now combined to produce the necessary conditions for famine.11878 9467 4197 22038 7006 27397 7435 5053 40724 36190 42826 41113 48268 6394 12563 49313 24365 26238 4492 12393 26441 24488 39157 34363 155 14761 45357 11674 2580 46122 11520 39423 16626 768 8392 41458 22262 38172 12888 25504 47942 38299 49844 48081 19575 24757 41544 12264 37321 27669 36313 3741 5383 17586 44941 36431 19536 18548 21923 41916 31901 45746 2590 44459 23881 3126 23160 47474 47884 20510 25491 36256 13550 27723 14139 38267 24607 40922 14215 23660 22601 32208 23124 23374 9342 7433 33206 48859 5284 21063 20554 3515 15247 20306 43525 2191 35291 4962 22469 16318 1519 43960 14039 15879 2043 33 39880 26522 3430 6294 11251 28404 4439 47925 17795 49567 21115 27731 34344 16461 18402 24254 41912 25513 49898 21888 20159 42608 34049 12179 2585 19385 17123 47547 22288 28716 17694 7333 21584 9325 16797 6430 45243 48924 10216 42096 48880 17011 2443 43832 29766 7176 19593 5982 47472 25605 2030 37773 15905 28676 28429 47184 42369 40923 3682 40979 11043 6682 24081 38861 30434 13761 5873 24746 49360 12282 29036 42844 15355 7415 22732 3043 39916 40520 31230 45024 49792 11381 21 46474 26651 29598 40816 42750 29667 19412 13829 3900 45025 18190 30259 41899 42588 13009 12379 15812 1409 44638 6421 34459 46340 8861 21507 8648 5456 25175 6875 1741 9080 8465 41108 49511 6665 27509 11557 932 22198 12873 44861 28658 48153 24839 47569 46644 25892 30811 10314 26025 27336 15028 43600 4739 4628 14364 150 17679 7785 31636 36750 4231