BBC News with David Austin

The Obama administration is suspending about a third of its annual aid to the Pakistani military, worth about $800m. The White House chief of staff Bill Daley said Pakistan was an important ally against terrorism but some of its conduct had given Washington reason to act. Rajesh Mirchandani reports.

Relations between the two countries have been increasingly

strain

ed since May when US troops went into Pakistan in secret and killed Osama Bin Laden. Pakistani leaders were

furious

the US did not consult them while US officials wondered out loud who in Pakistan might have known where Bin Laden was hiding. Last week, a senior US official suggested Pakistan was involved in the killing of a journalist.

Prior to

that, Islamabad expelled US military trainers. Washington may hope

holding back

aid is

persuasive

.

The aid agency Oxfam has called on the Kenyan authorities to allow Somali drought victims into a camp inside Kenya but which is empty. Aid workers say the empty camp, known as Ifo Two, is close to another one, Dadaab. Here's Martin Plaut.

Dadaab camp is bursting at the seams, and every day more than 1,000 Somalis stream in. Yet just down the road is another camp, Ifo Two. It's ready and waiting, complete with latrines and water supplies. For the past two years, the United Nations refugee agency says it's tried to get it opened, but the Kenyan authorities have been blocking their attempts. The head of the UNHCR, Antonio Guterres, is due to meet the Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Monday to try to remove the