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Families have built their own homes at the camp with tree branches, wood and plastic sheets, he says. 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. 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". Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers said the move came after a "significant increase in the workload" over the past fortnight. 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. Those conditions include more than 30% of children being acutely malnourished, and four children out of every 10,000 dying daily.