Traffic fines amounting to over N$200,000 have been collected during Operation ZAKAWE in the Kavango East, Kavango West, and Zambezi regions between 03 and 12 August.

The Zambezi Regional Council (ZRC) says several development projects in the region have stalled due to funding cuts, delayed budget releases and bureaucracy.

Among the affected projects is the status change of Kongola to a settlement.

Katima Mulilo Town Council has resolved to rename three streets after renowned public figures who hail from the Zambezi region.

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency Namibia (ADRA) has donated food parcels worth nearly N$300,000 to flood victims who were displaced in Nfooma in the Kabbe North Constituency of the Zambezi Region.

The humanitarian act will cater to 228 households, with each household receiving a food kit.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has highlighted Namibia's efforts to strengthen public health responses, focusing on the country's intensified fight against a malaria surge and its continued leadership in tobacco control across Africa.

The unresolved cases of corruption in the Zambezi region caused dissatisfaction among certain participants at the regional consultation regarding the formulation of the third National Anti-corruption strategy for the years 2026-2030.

A businessman in the Kaliyangile area of Sibbinda Constituency, Zambezi Region, received tailoring materials valued at N$9,600 from the Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare's income-generating activity (IGA) project.

Following compliance operations at the Kongola checkpoint in Zambezi, Minister Nekundi decried widespread violations by heavy-duty trucks, including overloading, weighbridge avoidance, and misuse of special permits.

Rainfall during the Christmas week was quite intense across much of the Oshana, Ohangwena, Kavango East and West, and Zambezi regions, which mostly experienced scattered showers accompanied by flash flooding.

Despite being banned, the United Democratic Party (UDP) has repeated a call for the Zambezi Region to secede from Namibia. 

UDP members marched to the Zambezi governor's office on Wednesday to submit a petition, stating the demand for secession.