Residents of Kavango West Region say they waited for far too long for the completion of the Nkurenkuru Intermediate Hospital, whose construction has been on hold for almost 10 years now.
Since its groundbreaking ceremony in November 2014, no construction has been done, apart from a fence that was erected.
It is a project that was about to bring relief to the people of Kavango West, but their hopes are dashed.
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.
Naingopo Primary School was established in 1978 and has a learner population of 75 with two teachers.
The school operates from pre-primary to grade three, using a multi-grade teaching method.
Social workers in the Kavango West Region are calling for the provision of a safe house for victims of gender-based violence.
This was their call to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on gender equality, social development, and family affairs, which visited the region.
Since the separation of the Kavango Region into East and West, the west remains largely dependent on the east for many private and public services.
Registration of pupils in the Kavango West Region has been moving at a snail's pace.
School staff fear this may delay or interrupt teaching and learning as classes are set to commence on Monday.
Schools started with registration on Thursday.
On Friday, the nbc News team visited some schools and found teachers waiting on parents to come and register their children.
They say this is an annual occurrence where parents are slack in registering their children.
A faction of the Vakwangali tribe in the Kavango West Region is set to announce a new candidate to be coronated to the dispute Hompa of the Traditional Authority next week.
The faction successfully opposed the coronation of Hompa Eugene Siwombe in the High Court about eight years ago.
The embattled Hompa of the Vakwangali Siwombe was crowned in 2015 after his designation by the Minister of Urban and Rural Development.
Senior Headman Andreas Kamukwanyama's faction approached the Windhoek High Court, which ruled that Siwombe's designation was unprocedural.
Gender-based violence is a concern in Namibia.
This was said during the launch of the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign in Kankudi village in the Kavango West Region.
This year, the campaign is held under the theme: Unite and invest to prevent violence against women and girls.
The 2013 demographic health survey indicates that Namibia has a GBV occurrence rate of 33%.
The Kavango West Region has recorded 10 road fatalities this year, while 13 people died last year.
Kavango West Regional Commander, Commissioner Julia Sakuwa-Neo, says all fatalities were a result of pedestrians being bumped on the road.
The Regional Commander made the remarks at the launch of the 2023–2024 Festive Season Operation and Road Safety Campaign in Kavango West.
The Don Reader Early Childhood Development Centre in Kavango West Region's Nkurenkuru is officially confirmed to meet the ECD standards of the Gender Equality, Poverty Eradication, and Social Welfare Ministry.
The centre was recently renovated to the tune of N$ 400,000, fully funded by the Namibia Teachers Union.
The Don Reader Ufenkenda ECD Centre was established in 2000 by Don Reader, a retired teacher from Canada, working under the British Colombia Teachers Federation, in collaboration with NANTU.
The upgrading of the N$30 million Nkurenkuru-Nepara road in the Kavango West Region has officially started.
The Nkurenkuru-Nepara road, which is currently gravel and serves a number of villages on the northwestern side of Nkurenkuru, will be upgraded to a low-volume seal standard, of which phase one is expected to be completed within a period of 10 months and will cover 10 kilometres, while phase two is 18 kilometres long.
Police in the Kavango West Region are determined to maintain peace and order in the region, despite the region recording fewer cases on a daily basis.
Kavango West Regional Commander Commissioner Julia Sakuwa-Neo made the comments at a regional crime prevention operation over the weekend.
Commissioner Sakuwa-Neo told the nbc News that Kavango West is the safest at the moment compared to other regions.
She explains that this is because the region is rurally dominant.
