The University of Namibia (UNAM) is hosting the inaugural Southern African Prostate Cancer Summit, which aims to bring coordinated attention to prostate cancer as a growing public health issue in the region.

Stakeholders have agreed to set up an integrated Gender-Based Violence Information Management System for Namibia by March 2027.

The stakeholders from the government, private and civil sectors made the decision at a high-level meeting at Swakopmund.

The Minister of Defence and Veterans Affairs, Frans Kapofi, led Namibia's delegation to the 8th United Nations Peacekeeping Ministerial meeting in Berlin, Germany.

President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah and her Botswana counterpart, Duma Boko, have proposed joint economic projects to shield the economies of the two countries from external shocks.

This is after the two leaders bemoaned the inequalities facing the people of both countries, terming it as unacceptable.

Only one councillor, Western Muharukua, who is the Chairperson of the Management Committee, turned up for a meeting scheduled with Urban and Rural Development Minister Sankwasa James Sankwasa in Opuwo this afternoon.