Cabinet has approved plans by a Chinese company to grow tobacco and maize in the Zambezi Region.

The Ministry of Poverty Eradication and Social Welfare rolled out its Food Bank programme in the Zambezi Region.

The Integrated Regional Land Use Plan (IRLUP) aims to find solutions on how to utilise land.

Regional leaders of the Zambezi Region have joined the uniformed forces and other stakeholders to create awareness on road safety.

-Some residents in the Zambezi Region continue to deny officials of the malaria control programme access to spray their houses, despite Government's efforts to control disease in the area.

Zambezi Governor, Alufea Sampofu, says a number of capital projects were implemented in the last financial year in the region despite economic difficulties.

While learners returned to school on Monday, five schools in the Zambezi Region could not open due to floods.

Inspector General of the Namibian Police Force Sebastian Ndeitunga has urged the Zambezi Regional Police to coordinate activities, and determine approaches to implement the National Integrated Crime Combating Strategy, towards improving community safety in the country.

-Residents of flood-prone areas in the west of the Zambezi Region continue to be affected by floods.

-Flood-prone villages of Kabbe South and North constituencies are at high risk as flood waters are flowing at a high speed.