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.30578 32464 37809 1526 48262 48811 16988 5810 33102 41736 22351 25696 45453 9300 40875 33072 49594 39711 28013 12622 45602 3464 41177 3547 39352 27629 42394 1170 43092 35654 18853 15453 39602 38423 3598 15042 13664 33923 27697 40095 48796 20888 20402 36671 14120 26790 47361 40483 41749 26438 32522 45719 46949 5972 19159 27104 41253 34213 12179 20613 6395 15824 12720 47426 22900 6823 36147 7057 5693 25814 19379 15664 11986 37970 13834 24723 33095 4541 39450 12535 30248 1925 9414 16650 3141 23152 18513 33611 19243 26535 23830 29472 21705 7001 33667 32980 8124 23002 13726 7242 40679 40294 34781 15914 7006 16774 33734 9022 42165 44445 44030 36742 44766 49654 40414 4502 6390 46073 44295 49752 38394 2523 37918 29201 1993 39916 43979 4948 4262 30906 16509 10091 40839 32169 21891 40000 17127 43482 9617 36368 39451 9477 41445 24807 32507 37166 34723 22052 16627 29113 26531 12080 28687 13973 18949 38185 2400 5541 13955 17134 22831 28757 4733 11249 27929 33957 45882 12612 27790 412 37417 12936 36486 7927 10318 28871 11085 13081 46721 14843 5178 21954 38368 25188 4358 4415 31430 26863 13202 33768 37623 11581 29518 42488 13504 10675 4707 30179 46876 48555 41278 22093 44276 16202 41755 13552 25665 20704 3640 40104 27064 39342 8823 49105 11948 868 40453 29590 6840 23498 2530 19033 49413 44031 12829 25798 33471 43964 44453 49645 24147 30942 16191 48194 23613 33131 27690 22087 33452 40834 28795 10683 23213 23145 6664 48281 2745 30414 30506 12627
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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.30578 32464 37809 1526 48262 48811 16988 5810 33102 41736 22351 25696 45453 9300 40875 33072 49594 39711 28013 12622 45602 3464 41177 3547 39352 27629 42394 1170 43092 35654 18853 15453 39602 38423 3598 15042 13664 33923 27697 40095 48796 20888 20402 36671 14120 26790 47361 40483 41749 26438 32522 45719 46949 5972 19159 27104 41253 34213 12179 20613 6395 15824 12720 47426 22900 6823 36147 7057 5693 25814 19379 15664 11986 37970 13834 24723 33095 4541 39450 12535 30248 1925 9414 16650 3141 23152 18513 33611 19243 26535 23830 29472 21705 7001 33667 32980 8124 23002 13726 7242 40679 40294 34781 15914 7006 16774 33734 9022 42165 44445 44030 36742 44766 49654 40414 4502 6390 46073 44295 49752 38394 2523 37918 29201 1993 39916 43979 4948 4262 30906 16509 10091 40839 32169 21891 40000 17127 43482 9617 36368 39451 9477 41445 24807 32507 37166 34723 22052 16627 29113 26531 12080 28687 13973 18949 38185 2400 5541 13955 17134 22831 28757 4733 11249 27929 33957 45882 12612 27790 412 37417 12936 36486 7927 10318 28871 11085 13081 46721 14843 5178 21954 38368 25188 4358 4415 31430 26863 13202 33768 37623 11581 29518 42488 13504 10675 4707 30179 46876 48555 41278 22093 44276 16202 41755 13552 25665 20704 3640 40104 27064 39342 8823 49105 11948 868 40453 29590 6840 23498 2530 19033 49413 44031 12829 25798 33471 43964 44453 49645 24147 30942 16191 48194 23613 33131 27690 22087 33452 40834 28795 10683 23213 23145 6664 48281 2745 30414 30506 12627