CSS Div's and Links

Hi
Can anybody offer advice?..

My CSS is as follows:
#menu {
width:175px;
height:260px;
background-color:#000;
margin-left:12.5px;
margin-right:12.5px;
margin-bottom:25px;

}

#menuitemscontainer {
width:175px;
height:210px;
background-color:#000;
}

#menuitems {
width:155px;
height:25px;
text-align:right;
color:#FFF;
font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif, Arial;
font-size:15px;
padding-right:20px;
padding-top:10px;
text-decoration:none;
}

and my HTML :

<div id=“menu”>

<div id=“menuitemscontainer”>

<div id=“menuitems”><a href="aboutmalawi.html"About Malawi>About Malawi</a></div>

<div id=“menuitems”>Useful Info</div>
<div id=“menuitems”>Accommodation</div>
<div id=“menuitems”>Transport</div>
<div id=“menuitems”>See & Do</div>
<div id=“menuitems”>Regions</div>

</div>
</div>

My question is, how can i stop links, that are within a div, adopting default link properties (blue, underlined). I want them to retain the style of the div that they are within.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated!!