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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 UN has declared a famine in two areas of southern Somalia as the region experiences the worst drought in more than half a century. Save the Children's Sonia Zambakides told the BBC the situation in Somalia was shocking. The deputy administrator of the US Agency for International Development, Donald Steinberg, said the aid must not benefit al-Shabab. 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. "I was talking to mothers with children, the children looked maybe nine months to one year old - the mothers were telling the children were three and four years old, so they are absolutely tiny."