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'Dangerously inadequate' Save the Children's Sonia Zambakides told the BBC the situation in Somalia was shocking. 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.

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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 BBC Africa analyst Martin Plaut says this marks a considerable change in policy from Washington. Nearly half the Somali population - 3.7 million people - were in crisis, he said, with most of them in the south. 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. Families have built their own homes at the camp with tree branches, wood and plastic sheets, he says. 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. The UN has declared a famine in two areas of southern Somalia as the region experiences the worst drought in more than half a century.

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"If we don't act now, famine will spread to all eight regions of southern Somalia within two months, due to poor harvests and infectious disease outbreaks," said the UN humanitarian co-ordinator for Somalia, Mark Bowden. The UN has declared a famine in two areas of southern Somalia as the region experiences the worst drought in more than half a century. The US considers al-Shabab a terrorist group and last year stopped aid to the large area of Somalia it controls. "The overall requirement is $1.6bn (�990m) for Somalia, roughly $300m is needed in the next two months to provide an adequate response to famine-affected areas. Children and adults are dying at an appalling rate," Mr Ban said.

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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. Families have built their own homes at the camp with tree branches, wood and plastic sheets, he says. Some children look like skeletons while others have swollen legs and hands, he adds. The UN has declared a famine in two areas of southern Somalia as the region experiences the worst drought in more than half a century. "If we don't act now, famine will spread to all eight regions of southern Somalia within two months, due to poor harvests and infectious disease outbreaks," said the UN humanitarian co-ordinator for Somalia, Mark Bowden. 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".

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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. 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. BBC Africa analyst Martin Plaut says this marks a considerable change in policy from Washington. "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,