The Ministry of Industrialization and Trade is seeking input on policies that would accelerate economic growth, promote entrepreneurship, and create a conducive environment for investment.
Minister Lucia Iipumbu sat down with the business community in Rundu for input on the draft Special Economic Zone Bill.
Healthcare services in the Kavango East Region are unable to cater to the region's population growth.
Kavango East Governor, Bonifatius Wakudumo, says health facilities are crumbling under pressure, not only from locals but also from patients needing treatment from neighbouring Angola.
The region is vast, and locals who can afford it are sometimes forced to travel long distances for medical care, but for the unfortunate majority, it is a different story.
In March, four minors from Livayi village died of suspected food poisoning.
The Minister of Health and Social Services, Dr. Kalumbi Shangula, says service delivery in the Kavango East health directorate is set to improve with the allocation of more than N$217 million from the national budget.
Dr. Shangula, who was speaking at the World Health Day celebrations in Rundu on Monday, says the Ministry of Health is undertaking various capital projects countrywide, and significant changes are expected to take place in Kavango East.
These include ICU and dialysis-related services.
Potential graduates from the University of Namibia (UNAM) who are in arrears are currently unable to obtain their qualification certificates or academic transcripts.
This has caused concern among many students who are scheduled to graduate next month, as they worry about the impact of their university debt on their future prospects.
Previously, Unam allowed potential graduates to access their qualification certificates and academic transcripts even if they were in arrears, provided that they cleared their debt before receiving their official documents.
With the general elections slated for November this year, the Namibia Institute for Democracy (NID) is carrying out civic education campaigns countrywide.
The institute paid a visit to Unam's Rundu Campus to engage students in the "Namibia Needs Me" campaign.
The "Namibia Needs Me" campaign is all about strengthening democratic participation, and NID's Executive Director, Naita Hishoono, says institutions like universities are a great place to start.
With the rural electrification budget having received a significant boost, the Minister of Mines and Energy, Tom Alweendo, is calling on regional councils to use allocated funds prudently.
For the past 34 years, rural electrification in the Kavango East Region has mostly targeted public institutions instead of households.
The regional leadership says it's about time to shift focus to households in rural areas, where some have been without electricity since independence.
This was among the deliberations that took place during the discussion between representatives of the Ministry of Mines and Energy and the Kavango Regional Council on the question of rural electrification.
The Rundu Rural Constituency councillor says that despite various studies revealing that Kavango East is one of the poorest regions, the central government has not done enough to turn the tide.
Paulus Mbangu was addressing the Minister of Mines and Energy during an engagement with the Kavango East Regional Council.
According to Mbangu, four income and expenditure surveys were carried out between 1993 and 2014, and they all established that the Kavango regions were the poorest.
An agricultural census in 1995 and 2005 had the same result.
The Rundu Magistrate's Court has not been renovated for over a decade and is now in disrepair.
The court is currently out of storage and office space.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs was informed about these concerns during a site visit.
Much of the Rundu Magistrate's Court in Kavango East is an assortment of peeling walls, various holes in the roof, and broken windows.
Years have passed without any improvements to the building.
The leader of the Landless People's Movement, Bernadus Swartbooi, says Rundu is in a deplorable state.
During a media conference, the party leadership raised a number of concerns, mainly related to the town's infrastructure and land.
