One more person has died following an incident where eight people are suspected to have contracted food poisoning at Livayi Village, 155 kilometres east of Rundu.

This brings the number of dead from the incident to three. 

Residents of Kavango West Region gathered in numbers to pay homage to the late President Hage Geingob. 

The Governor of Kavango West Region, Sirkka Ausiku, shared a message of condolence on behalf of the Kavango West Region. 

Swapo Party Kavango West Regional Coordinator David Hipulwa, in his tribute, described the late party President as a unifier.

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 Kavango East Region has four times fewer police officers than required.

Acting Police Regional Commander Eino Nambahu says there are only 665 officers on the ground in the region, while 3,000 police officers are required.

Overcrowding in the holding cells at the Rundu Police Station has become a matter of concern.

Station Commander Chief Inspector Heremine Muranda says they are now challenged with providing effective service delivery to the inmates.  

Naingopo Primary School in the Kavango West Region, situated over 80 km south of Rundu, is in urgent need of an infrastructural upgrade.

Community members feel that the school has been neglected for many years, with not even the bare necessities of a school.

The Rundu Town Council is finally taking action to improve the status of the Tumweneni informal settlement.

The action comes after a directive from the Minister of Urban and Rural Development, Erastus Uutoni, in August 2022 to formalise Tumweneni.

Two male suspects are in custody, and their truck was seized by the Namibian Police at Kongola after contraband was found in their possession during a routine search at the checkpoint.

The suspects, aged 27 and 37, respectively, are said to be employed by a local trucking company.

The offices of the Ministry of Education, Arts, and Culture in Kavango East Region were broken into.

The incident was discovered by staff members who reported for duty on Friday. 

Authorities say they lost valuable items and data that were on the stolen laptops.