The water crisis in Rundu continues unabated. 

Various households still go for hours without water every day, while some schools are still sending children home early due to the unavailability of water. 

The Chief Medical Officer at Intermediate Hospital Rundu, Dr. Medson Chibwe, revealed that around 600 people were admitted for mental health issues at the hospital between January and September this year.

Dr. Chibwe shared these figures during the World Mental Health Day commemoration on Friday.

Senior officers of NamPol's border and infrastructure protection directorate are gathered in Rundu to, among others, look at strategies to combat cross-border crime.

A women empowerment organisation called LOLA was launched at Rundu with the hopes of changing the lives of young women there.

The launch was attended by learners from different schools.

The Landless People's Movement's (LPM) Chief Change Campaigner and presidential candidate Bernardus Swartbooi promised to eradicate poverty.

Swartbooi said this during the official launch of the party's 2024 manifesto in Rundu, Kavango East Region.

Employees of OK Foods at Rundu who went on strike in May this year are staging a demonstration after receiving dismissal letters on 25 September. 

The more than 100 workers were suspended from 25 May to 25 September with pay, only to be dismissed this week. 

To address water challenges faced by the people of the Kavango East Region, NamWater handed over the Kayengona and Shamvhura water supply river schemes to the residents of Rundu Rural and Ndiyona Constituencies yesterday.

The Kavango East Region has recorded over 3,300 cases of malaria so far this year.

In response, the Ministry of Health and Social Services is urging residents to allow indoor residual spray teams into their homes as the malaria prevention campaign officially kicks off this Monday. 

Residents of the Kehemu Informal Settlement in Rundu have called on the town council to consider improving the road infrastructure.

They say the bad roads are limiting their day-to-day activities and negatively affecting their businesses.

Students at the University of Namibia's Rundu Campus say cultural festivals are an eye-opener and a great way to appreciate different ethnic groups found all over the country.