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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. During Wednesday's House of Commons debate on the phone-hacking scandal, MPs called on News International to publish the full exchanges about e-mails examined by the legal firm. News International's parent company News Corporation has also confirmed it has stopped paying the legal fees of former private detective Glenn Mulcaire, who was convicted of phone hacking on behalf of the News of the World in 2007. 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. BBC Africa analyst Martin Plaut says this marks a considerable change in policy from Washington. Some children look like skeletons while others have swollen legs and hands, he adds. Those conditions include more than 30% of children being acutely malnourished, and four children out of every 10,000 dying daily. 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.
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