Mukwe is a constituency in the Kavango Region of Namibia

Namibia

Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...

. It has 26.000 inhabitants, the district centre is the settlement of Mukwe.

The constituency contains the settlements of Andara

Andara

Andara is a village in Mukwe Constituency, Kavango Region, Namibia. Located 200km east of Rundu, it is inhabited primarily by the Hambukushu people. It is the home of the Holy Family Parish, a Roman Catholic mission...

, Bagani

Bagani, Namibia

Bagani is a town on the south-western banks of the Okavango River in the Kavango Region, Namibia, 200 km east of Rundu and near the Popa Falls on the Okavango River...

, and Divundu

Divundu

Divundu is a town on the south-eastern banks of the Okavango River in the Kavango Region, Namibia, 200 km east of Rundu. Divundu has a population of around 5.430 inhabitants and is homestead of the local Mbukushu kings....

.

There is a bilateral agreement with Angola

Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...

 to allow mutual near-border immigration without travel documents. This applies to a maximum distance of 30 km, it is not valid for tourists.

2009

The day after the 2009 general election, the Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN) called for a recount of Mukwe's ballots "after several political parties expressed their unhappiness over the counting process". There were 19 polling stations in the constituency. In the certified results, incumbent President and SWAPO candidate Hifikepunye Pohamba

Hifikepunye Pohamba

Hifikepunye Lucas Pohamba is the second and current President of Namibia. He won the 2004 and 2009 presidential elections overwhelmingly as the candidate of the South West Africa People's Organisation ruling party, taking office in March 2005. He has also been the President of SWAPO since...

 received 6,227 votes of the 8,542 accepted votes. The closest candidates to Pohamba were the APP's

All People's Party (Namibia)

The All People's Party is a political party in Namibia.Registered with the Electoral Commission of Namibia in January 2008, the party was initially made up primarily of former members of the Congress of Democrats and SWAPO political parties...

 Ignatius Shixwameni

Ignatius Shixwameni

Ignatius Nkotongo Shixwameni is a Namibian politician. He is the leader of the All People's Party.-Early life and education:...

 (661 votes) and RDP's

Rally for Democracy and Progress (Namibia)

The Rally for Democracy and Progress is an opposition political party in Namibia. It was launched on November 17 2007 under the leadership of Hidipo Hamutenya and Jesaya Nyamu, both former leading members of the ruling SWAPO party and cabinet ministers. Hamutenya had unsuccessfully sought the SWAPO...

 Hidipo Hamutenya

Hidipo Hamutenya

Hidipo L. Hamutenya is a Namibian politician. A long-time leading member of the South West Africa People's Organization , Hamutenya was a member of the Cabinet of Namibia from independence in 1990 to 2004...

 received (343 votes).

2010

In the 2010 local and regional elections

Namibian local and regional elections, 2010

Namibia held elections for their local and regional councils on 26 and 27 November 2010. The terms of regional councillors and local authority representatives were originally set to expire in 2009...

, SWAPO's Christian Muriki won a seat in the Kavango Regional Council with 3,774 votes over APP's Pankratius Kutenda with 783 votes. DTA's Petrus Dishara finished in third place with 414 votes and RDP's Justina Ngombara finished in last place 117 votes.