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The protester accused of throwing shaving foam at Rupert Murdoch is charged with a public order offence The US considers al-Shabab a terrorist group and last year stopped aid to the large area of Somalia it controls. 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. She said some of the mothers had walked up to six days with no food to try to find help. Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers said the move came after a "significant increase in the workload" over the past fortnight. "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."