Police in the Kavango West Region are on a mission to combat illegal timber harvesting and sale.

During August, at least 400 processed timber planks were confiscated. 

Workers of the Namibia Industrial Development Agency (NIDA), based at Kavango Cattle Ranch in the Kavango West Region, joined other NIDA employees on a strike demanding a salary increment.

The strike has been on for three days now.

The Kavango West Region has requested four additional constituencies to improve service delivery.

The proposal was handed to the Boundaries Delimitation and Demarcation Commission at Nkurenkuru during public consultation.

The Minister of Urban and Rural Development, Erastus Uutoni, urged local authorities to refrain from collecting debt from their clients via third-party enforcers and rather educate residents on their services and their responsibilities to ensure such services remain available.

At least 24 low-income earners at Nkurenkuru's Kakuro location in Kavango West Region received houses built under the Shack Dwellers Federation (SDFN).

The project began on December 1, 2021.

The Swapo Party Elders Council (SPEC) of the Kapako District in the Kavango West Region condemned the opposition of its newly elected district coordinator by some Swapo Party Youth League (SPYL) members, who elected another candidate.

President Nangolo Mbumba paid a visit and laid a wreath on the grave of the late Alpo Mauno Mbamba at Mupini Village in the Kavango West Region. 

President Mbumba and the late Mbamba were classmates from 1960 to 1965 at Ongwediva and Oshingabo High Schools.

Pensioners in the Kavango West Region remember the late President Hage Geingob as a benevolent provider.

The nbc News team, during its visits to different homesteads, found the elderly in the crop fields.

They shared their appreciation for the late president.

The Ministry of Environment, Forestry, and Tourism has called on rural communities to be creative and partake in the tourism sector.

This was stated during the celebration of World Tourism Day at Nkurenkuru.

The three-day 'Unmatched Youth Conference' concluded today at Nkurenkuru in the Kavango West Region.