Category: Zambezi News

By Staff Reporter KATIMA MULILO – Three young people died on Sunday evening when the car they were travelling in bumped two pedestrians while overtaking and then collided head-on with a truck on the B8 road, Acting Regional Commander Deputy Commissioner Magdeline Garises, confirmed the incident in a report on Monday. The crash happened at…

By Staff Reporter A passenger died and six others were injured when a vehicle overturned on the Lizauli–Sachona gravel road on Sunday, police have confirmed. The accident occurred at around 16h50 on 06 September 2026 in the Sachona area. According to police, an unlicensed driver was travelling from Lizauli towards Sachona when he encountered goats…

By Staff Reporter Bwabwata National Park — Three people died on the spot and four others were injured, one seriously, after a station wagon and a truck collided head-on late Friday night on the B8 road at Chetto, inside Bwabwata National Park. The accident occurred at around 00:15 on Saturday, 5 September 2026, when a…

By Staff Reporter KATIMA MULILO — Police in Katima Mulilo are investigating the death of a 33-year-old woman who was found dead at her home in the Cowboy area of Katima Mulilo on Saturday, 5 September 2026. The Namibian Police say the woman, identified as Lisa Sikute, a Namibian national, was found in her house…

By Staff Reporter NGOMA — A Zambian man drowned on Thursday, 3 September 2026, while trying to swim across a stream at Tukona fishing camp, Ioma village, near Ngoma.Police say the man was crossing the stream with a companion when he ran into difficulty in the water and went under. His body was recovered the…

By Risco Lumamezi KATIMA MULILO — A decades-old mystery surrounding the disappearance of four senior African National Congress (ANC) freedom fighters in the former Eastern Caprivi has been brought closer to resolution following academic research linking their final journey to an ambush at Ishuwa on 20 August 1970. The four men — Flag Boshielo, Castro…

By Staff Reporter The body of an eight-year-old Zambian boy who drowned on Sunday, August 16, was found floating on Thursday, August 20, 2026, in the Mahonono Area at Matoya Harbour on the Zambian side of the river. Zambezi Police Regional Commander, Commissioner Julia Sakuwa Neo, confirmed to Caprivi Vision that the body was retrieved…

By Staff Reporter KATIMA MULILO — The Namibian Police in Katima Mulilo are searching for the bodies of two people who drowned in the Zambezi River on Sunday, August 16, 2026. According to a police report, a report was received from Nfoma Village in the Imukusi area of the Zambezi Region concerning a canoe that…

By Staff Reporter Namibian Police at Bukalo have reported a case of suicide , whereby Mukungu Ronic Lyomba, a Namibian male aged 33 years, and a resident of Lyangwe Village in Bukalo Area hanged himself with a rope on Thursday July 23 , 2026 at around 08h33. The deceased’s motive for committing suicide is not…

By Staff Reporter The Namibian Police in Zambezi Region have co-opted with the community intercepting twelve (12) suspected stolen cattle from Botswana on Monday , July 20, 2026 at between Masambo and Omega 3 in the western Zambezi. According to the police report , Commissioner Julia Sakuwa-NeoRegional Commander in Zambezi Region confirmed that the stolen…