Namibia could soon be forced to borrow from the World Bank if it adopts a plan to overhaul the education system, which has been gobbling up huge chunks of funds with relatively little to show for the expenditure. A decision to borrow from the World Bank would put paid to the country's refusal to become a debtor to the Washington-based institution and its sister body, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which President Sam Nujoma has described as imperialist agents.

A legacy of the apartheid era in Namibia is that in many areas, traditional mechanisms for land and resource allocation have broken down. With rapid population growth, there is a need for sustainable resource management to avoid environmental degradation and economic decline. How successful is the Namibian government's policy of devolving authority over natural resources?

Namibian farm workers will try to invade 15 commercial farms across the country next week after the government ignored their demands for land reform, the head of the Namibia Farmworkers Union (NAFWU) said on Tuesday.

As the treason trial of 122 defendants, at least 70 of whom Amnesty International considers to be prisoners of conscience, resumed in Namibia on 27 October, the organisation is urging the Namibian authorities to ensure that the trials proceed in line with international standards of fairness. The defendants were arrested and accused of high treason, murder and other offences in connection with the secessionist Caprivi uprising of August 1999.