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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. 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 The US considers al-Shabab a terrorist group and last year stopped aid to the large area of Somalia it controls. The deputy administrator of the US Agency for International Development, Donald Steinberg, said the aid must not benefit al-Shabab. But US aid officials say assurances must be given that the insurgents will not interfere with its distribution. 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.