The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs is on its second fact-finding mission to the Bwabwata National Park.

Johannes Konjore has been appointed as the new Deputy Commissioner-General responsible for Correctional Operations effective from 01 November. The new Deputy Commissioner-General takes over from Tuhafeni Hangula who recently retired on medical grounds.

The Ministry of Health and Social Services has procured all needed pharmaceuticals and clinical supplies, that were out of stock at most public health centres countrywide. Distribution had commenced this week.

The National Equitable Economic Empowerment Framework (NEEEF) is not targeting white businesses but a policy tool to correct historic racial and gender inequalities among Namibians.

Finance Minister, Calle Schleittwein says cost cutting measures, that government introduced in 2017, were too harsh and to an extent contributed to poor economic growth and job losses. The Finance Minister made this remark during a panel discussion on this year's economic outlook.

The Health Ministry in the Democratic Republic of Congo has reported that a fourth person has died from Ebola.

Emmanuel Macron was elected President of France on Sunday with a business-friendly vision of European integration. He defeated Marine Le Pen, a far-right nationalist, who threatened to take France out of the European Union.

Aid agencies are withdrawing staff from South Sudan's Upper Nile region. That follows the killing of three aid workers last week. At least 82 humanitarian staff have been killed in South Sudan since civil war broke out in December 2013.

Humanitarian agencies are warning that a failure to help millions of Nigerians on the brink of starvation could force huge numbers of people to leave the country. Currently close to five million people in Nigeria's northeast are food insecure.

German police are investigating what they call a probable terrorist attack after a man ploughed a lorry into a Christmas market in the heart of Berlin. Twelve people were killed and 48 others injured.