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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. She said the US had already provided $431m this year in emergency aid to the Horn of Africa, but that was "not enough". Some children look like skeletons while others have swollen legs and hands, he adds. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said new funds to help the country were desperately needed. 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. The deputy administrator of the US Agency for International Development, Donald Steinberg, said the aid must not benefit al-Shabab.