By Voice Of America | On July 4, 2007 | In Africa | Rated 
The U.N. World Food Program tells VOA that the Kenyan government is still blocking access to U.N. trucks trying to deliver food to more than 100,000 people in neighboring Somalia. As VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu reports from our East Africa Bureau in Nairobi, Kenya is under pressure to keep the border closed for security reasons.
By Voice Of America | On July 4, 2007 | In Africa | Rated 
U.N. agencies are warning malnutrition rates in refugee camps in Kenya have reached alarming levels. The U.N. Refugee Agency, World Food Program and U.N. Children's Fund are urgently appealing for $32 million to reverse this situation. Lisa Schlein reports for VOA from Geneva.
By Voice Of America | On July 4, 2007 | In Africa | Rated
Another Somali government official has been gunned down in a neighborhood in the capital, Mogadishu.
By Voice Of America | On July 4, 2007 | In Africa | Rated
Officials of both factions of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change say it is not within their power to bring representatives of civil society organizations into South African-brokered crisis resolution talks with the ruling ZANU-PF party.
By Voice Of America | On July 4, 2007 | In Africa | Rated
Zimbabwe is sending a lean 15-member All-Africa Games athletic team to Algeria next week, but manager Selatiel Zangure says he hopes for gold, silver or bronze.
By Voice Of America | On July 4, 2007 | In Africa | Rated
A senior official of a Western non-governmental organization has accused Somalia's interim government leaders of deliberately harassing and intimidating humanitarian organizations that refuse to work under government control. As VOA correspondent Alisha Ryu reports from our East African bureau in Nairobi, the allegations are some of the most serious charges of corruption against Somalia's Western-backed leadership since it took power in Mogadishu six months ago.
By Voice Of America | On July 4, 2007 | In Africa | Rated
A week ago, the Washington Post quoted Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi as saying that his government made a wrong political calculation when it intervened in Somalia. The Post said Prime Minister Zenawi told Ethiopia’s parliament that his government incorrectly assumed that breaking up the Islamic movement that took control of Somalia in June 2006 would subdue the country.
By Voice Of America | On July 4, 2007 | In Africa | Rated
The 9th African Union summit ends today in Accra, Ghana, with African leaders disagreeing on how best to launch a single African government. Reporter Kent Mensah of radio station Joy FM, in Accra, told VOA English to Africa reporter Cole Mallard that economically, the creation of the Pan-African Infrastructure Development Fund is a helpful step in efforts to establish a single African government and to improve the living standards of Africa’s 850 million people.
By Voice Of America | On July 4, 2007 | In Africa | Rated
Ghana has redenominated its currency the cedi in an attempt to make life easier for both shoppers and business people who are reportedly fed up with carrying large bundles of cash that makes them easy targets for thieves. But critics of President John Kufuor’s government say the process has been shrouded in secrecy.
By Voice Of America | On July 4, 2007 | In Africa | Rated
The hooded killers of the Chadian president's son were filmed on video surveillance cameras in the underground car park in France where his body was found, a judicial source said on Tuesday.
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