United Nations Radio

As the people of Zimbabwe continued to await the results of the 29 March presidential election, the Security Council this week discussed the crisis behind closed doors.

Four weeks have passed since the people cast their votes for president of Zimbabwe and tensions are building up. But it is not only the Zimbabweans who feel frustrated, as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon clearly states in this report by UN Radio's Bissera Kostova.

Kenya's El-molo people want control of their land

Indigenous people from around the world are concluding their two-week session at United Nations headquarters this week which has been focusing on the impact of climate change and how to deal with it. I caught up with Christiana Saiti Louwa, the representative of the El-Molo people, a small community of indigenous people who live by fishing and keeping livestock along the shores of Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. She told me that her people are now facing difficulties because of the scarcity of land.

Africa is hardest hit by the food crisis

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon this week announced the setting up a task force to tackle the problem of the global food crisis sparked by rising food and fuel prices. Africa will be hardest hit by the crisis because a large proportion of its population depends on relief food aid for survival. Patrick Maigua reports from Geneva.

Producer: Derrick Mbatha

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