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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. News International has said a May 2007 letter from the firm had made it believe that hacking was a "matter of the past" and confined to a single rogue reporter. Some children look like skeletons while others have swollen legs and hands, he adds. 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. 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.
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She said the US had already provided $431m this year in emergency aid to the Horn of Africa, but that was "not enough". She said there had been a "surge of inquiries and requests for assistance from the public and solicitors". 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. Drought, conflict and poverty have now combined to produce the necessary conditions for famine.
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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.
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Save the Children's Sonia Zambakides told the BBC the situation in Somalia was shocking. 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. Those conditions include more than 30% of children being acutely malnourished, and four children out of every 10,000 dying daily. Earlier, the Met was accused by MPs of a "catalogue of failures" in the News of the World phone-hacking inquiry. An estimated 10 million people have been affected in East Africa by the worst drought in more than half a century. More than 166,000 desperate Somalis are estimated to have fled their country to neighbouring Kenya or Ethiopia. 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. 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 some of the mothers had walked up to six days with no food to try to find help.
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"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, 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 In other developments in the phone-hacking saga: Nearly half the Somali population - 3.7 million people - were in crisis, he said, with most of them in the south. Some children look like skeletons while others have swollen legs and hands, he adds. Families have built their own homes at the camp with tree branches, wood and plastic sheets, he says.
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