Participants at the education engagement with Deputy Prime Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah at Katima Mulilo pointed at a number of issues as contributors to poor academic performance last year.

The crime prevention operation launched recently at Katima Mulilo has registered success in combating crime.

The operation, which included a community policing forum, was designed to improve crime-fighting strategies in response to reports of high rates of housebreaking in Choto and other compounds.

At the Katima Mulilo hospital, 12 babies were born on New Year's Day—eight boys and four girls.

An exhausted yet happy new mother, Nambile Mbala, who was the first to give birth to a baby boy shortly after two in the morning, said she was speechless.

The Minister of Gender Equality, Poverty Eradication, and Social Welfare hosted a Christmas party for people with disabilities at Katima Mulilo.

Minister Sioka said she was humbled to share her time with people with disabilities.

Two out of seven members of the Katima Mulilo Town Council Management Committee have been sworn in after a successful election today.

The Health Control Programme Officer in the Directorate of Special Programmes in the Ministry of Health and Social Services, Nicholus Mutenda, says Namibia is doing well in terms of HIV Strategic response.

Heavy rains associated with a storm have caused damage to houses, especially in the informal settlements of Katima Mulilo.

The rain affected the supply of electricity to the town of Katima Mulilo and caused damage to houses in the informal settlements, with the Chotto compound being the worst affected.

A group of residents at Katima Mulilo in Zambezi staged a demonstration, demanding land delivery from the Town Council.

The demonstrators are also accusing the Town Council of allegedly failing to implement development projects promised during the elections.

A 45-year-old Jose Paulus Maseka died at the Katima Mulilo State Hospital after he was stabbed in the arm with a broken bottle at a local bar.

It is reported that the suspect and the deceased were drinking at a local Bar at Katima Mulilo when an argument broke out between the deceased and his girlfriend.

Deputy Minister of Urban And Rural Development Nathalia |Goagoses has called on senior officials in regional and local authorities to be creative and work together as a team and not to behave as politicians.

|Goagoses says only through cooperation will towns and regions develop fast.