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. 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. Save the Children's Sonia Zambakides told the BBC the situation in Somalia was shocking. Earlier, the Met was accused by MPs of a "catalogue of failures" in the News of the World phone-hacking inquiry. An estimated 10 million people have been affected in East Africa by the worst drought in more than half a century. More than 166,000 desperate Somalis are estimated to have fled their country to neighbouring Kenya or Ethiopia. In other developments in the phone-hacking saga: Families have built their own homes at the camp with tree branches, wood and plastic sheets, he says.24760 49798 9179 12626 4938 34277 8637 13068 35581 49711 39626 8278 42200 15565 12805 32974 3624 2060 35090 16353 39076 35769 21218 1753 6931 2071 45441 45700 11833 40688 22014 42765 49165 44078 16803 18336 32460 16447 36509 41914 14387 26858 28043 44874 40706 48091 34570 44877 48107 26497 48565 40839 21009 44586 9861 38951 28574 7414 5668 2858 38796 12933 1241 44889 27687 46860 9102 48105 48753 44455 512 37162 15551 43174 1951 12243 7727 26280 11056 8841 17519 566 47573 35245 42102 31120 21785 4586 34221 27759 39663 25051 10759 33653 3098 1462 25621 33144 17204 43828 38996 36425 46105 3658 25988 11401 25310 27780 42644 47604 31235 2292 46343 46826 35348 38224 15330 15998 2786 46546 25087 4502 13903 20992 4785 25414 26436 31826 40068 497 36532 24534 9162 17230 19817 30996 4440 43942 9277 30714 5820 43957 11967 36572 46503 37363 28669 13913 48282 14865 36122 9703 30353 20618 18761 34505 22585 25125 48857 587 34880 43474 37682 42146 11079 6709 43136 29143 27025 4356 33807 21359 6722 22053 40740 31118 42557 27241 24427 17399 46717 12612 33526 25231 14362 26861 44171 38503 48459 35237 8456 29260 45060 8682 45817 12360 6245 19793 25523 39805 44244 49515 36789 43929 30975 14831 2958 8339 29820 37540 41947 45292 705 31474 3855 22324 9948 12491 27787 34145 12558 4615 30667 41774 45892 4538 26235 48036 26166 28385 24873 22781 1721 34599 23107 47192 25709 39573 44239 49523 23903 35817 8709 10909 43291 13157 28554 13603 4826 23495
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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. 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. Save the Children's Sonia Zambakides told the BBC the situation in Somalia was shocking. Earlier, the Met was accused by MPs of a "catalogue of failures" in the News of the World phone-hacking inquiry. An estimated 10 million people have been affected in East Africa by the worst drought in more than half a century. More than 166,000 desperate Somalis are estimated to have fled their country to neighbouring Kenya or Ethiopia. In other developments in the phone-hacking saga: Families have built their own homes at the camp with tree branches, wood and plastic sheets, he says.24760 49798 9179 12626 4938 34277 8637 13068 35581 49711 39626 8278 42200 15565 12805 32974 3624 2060 35090 16353 39076 35769 21218 1753 6931 2071 45441 45700 11833 40688 22014 42765 49165 44078 16803 18336 32460 16447 36509 41914 14387 26858 28043 44874 40706 48091 34570 44877 48107 26497 48565 40839 21009 44586 9861 38951 28574 7414 5668 2858 38796 12933 1241 44889 27687 46860 9102 48105 48753 44455 512 37162 15551 43174 1951 12243 7727 26280 11056 8841 17519 566 47573 35245 42102 31120 21785 4586 34221 27759 39663 25051 10759 33653 3098 1462 25621 33144 17204 43828 38996 36425 46105 3658 25988 11401 25310 27780 42644 47604 31235 2292 46343 46826 35348 38224 15330 15998 2786 46546 25087 4502 13903 20992 4785 25414 26436 31826 40068 497 36532 24534 9162 17230 19817 30996 4440 43942 9277 30714 5820 43957 11967 36572 46503 37363 28669 13913 48282 14865 36122 9703 30353 20618 18761 34505 22585 25125 48857 587 34880 43474 37682 42146 11079 6709 43136 29143 27025 4356 33807 21359 6722 22053 40740 31118 42557 27241 24427 17399 46717 12612 33526 25231 14362 26861 44171 38503 48459 35237 8456 29260 45060 8682 45817 12360 6245 19793 25523 39805 44244 49515 36789 43929 30975 14831 2958 8339 29820 37540 41947 45292 705 31474 3855 22324 9948 12491 27787 34145 12558 4615 30667 41774 45892 4538 26235 48036 26166 28385 24873 22781 1721 34599 23107 47192 25709 39573 44239 49523 23903 35817 8709 10909 43291 13157 28554 13603 4826 23495