September 16, 2014.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I'm Samantha Moolman.
Making headlines:

The implementation of some of the new immigration regulations will be delayed until June 1, 2015.

President Barack Obama will on Tuesday announce ramped-up efforts to beat Ebola.

And, the UN has taken over a peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic previously run by the African Union.

Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba announced on Tuesday that the implementation of two of the new immigration regulations would be delayed until June 1, 2015.

This referred to the requirements that children be in possession of an unabridged birth certificate and have written permission from both parents or guardians authorising the child's travel.

Gigaba told reporters at Parliament the department had granted the postponement of these two particular requirements – the unabridged birth certificate and written permission – to June 1, 2015.

The US will ramp up its response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa with plans to build 17 treatment centres, train thousands of healthcare workers and establish a military control centre for coordination.

Senior administration officials told reporters the plan will be unveiled by President Barack Obama on Tuesday.

Obama, who has called the epidemic a national security crisis, has faced criticism for not doing more to stem the outbreak, which the World Health Organisation said last week had killed more than 2 400 people out of 4 784 cases in West Africa.

The United Nations on Monday took over a peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic previously run by the African Union.  Rights groups said the move must lead to more action to protect civilians from attack.

The former French colony has been paralysed by violence for nearly two years and is now deeply divided, with its north mostly occupied by Muslim Seleka rebels who seized power nationally last year but were forced to step down in January.

Members of a 6 000-strong African Union peacekeeping force, which has struggled alongside some 2 000 French troops to restore order, on Monday swapped their green AU berets for the blue ones worn by UN peacekeepers across the world.

Soldiers from elsewhere, including Morocco, Bangladesh and Pakistan, are joining the existing African troops.

Also making headlines:

State-owned Development Bank of Southern African plans to raise total yearly disbursements to R22-billion by 2017, with a major focus on under-resourced municipalities.

Mauritius appointed a new leader of the opposition on Monday, replacing the head of the Mauritian Militant Movement, which has decided to enter into a coalition with the ruling Labour Party.

And, Somalia's al Shabaab militants have denied that Ugandan authorities had foiled an attack by the group, after police in Uganda's capital seized explosives and suicide vests and arrested 19 people.

Also on Polity:

A new report by the Institute for Security Studies on the Islamic State notes that there are genuine concerns that the Islamic State’s thousands of African fighters, with access to the group’s considerable war chest, will return home to inflame existing conflict.

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That’s a roundup of news making headlines today.