The councillor of Mukwe Constituency, Damian Maghambayi, urged the Minister of Finance to intervene in the upgrade of the Divundu Muhembo border road. Maghambayi was speaking during the belated 34th Independence Day celebration held at Bagani over the weekend.

The Hambukushu Community in the Kavango East Region's Mukwe Constituency is against the designation of a Khwe Chief at Bwabwata National Park.

This comes after the Minister of Urban and Rural Development, Erastus Uutoni, approved the appointment of a Khwe Chief.

The Inspector General of the Police, Lieutenant General Joseph Shikongo, is visiting various policing areas and community members, aimed at educating the public on the police's mandate.

Swapo Party Member of Parliament Elifas Dingara says he will honour the invitation by the Hambukushu Traditional Authority when he returns from his official trip aboard and explain how the alleged illegal fence came about.

The Hambukushu Traditional Authority is demanding answers from Member of Parliament Elifas Dingara for allegedly fencing off a large piece of land without its permission in the area of Kambimba in the Mukwe Constituency.

Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila is concerned that despite the government's welfare programme, there are still vulnerable children who do not have support.

Kuugongelwa-Amadhila said this during a fundraising dinner for orphans and vulnerable children at Divundu in the Mukwe Constituency. 

Parents of learners at Thipanana Junior Primary School in Kavango East's Mukwe Constituency are calling for a holiday school during the winter trimester break.

This is because the learners did not allegedly have lessons since the beginning of the year, as they had only one teacher.

Mukwe Constituency Councillor Damian Maghambayi is calling for permanent solutions to human-wildlife conflict, involving elephants. 

Maghambayi says many villages close to the Mahango Game Park are losing their crops to elephants escaping from the game park.

The principal of Max Makushe Secondary in Kavango East's Mukwe Constituency has threatened to suspend lessons if overflowing sewage at the school hostel is not addressed.

A man arrested for allegedly being in possession of two elephant tusks at the Buffalo checkpoint in the Mukwe Constituency on Friday, made his first appearance in the Rundu Magistrate’s Court on Monday.

Lihako Sishwama, 31, appeared before magistrate Selma Shiiga, who granted him bail of N$10,000.