Statelessness due to a lack of national identity documents is said to be worsening poverty among the Khwe community living in the Bwabwata National Park in Kavango East's Mukwe Constituency.

The Village Development Committee (VDC) at Omega One Settlement says many Khwedum-speaking people there have no national documents.

Omega One has the largest concentration of the Khwe community inhabiting the formally Western Caprivi area.

The Police's Silver Anti-Poaching Unit based in the Bwabwata National Park has called for the installation of earth wire at their camps to avoid them being electrocuted.

This is after six officials including one from the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism escaped a thunder strike at the Bolicia Post last week.

The officers of the special anti-poaching unit were treated for shock at the Andara Roman Catholic Hospital but have since been discharged.

The lightning strike is said to have hit the center of the post where their temporary kitchen was erected.