On the opposite, north-eastern banks of the river lies Cuangar in Angola and the two towns are linked via a nearby border post.

[3] During her reign tensions arose with neighboring people and the Kwangali moved from Mazuku first to Sihangu near Mukukuta and then further to Karai (nearby today's Cuangar).

[5] On December 30, 1886, Portugal and Germany signed a bilateral agreement, in which the borders between Angola and South West Africa were defined along the Okavango River.

The tribes of the Kavango people, who at this time settled on both sides of the river, were informed about this new territorial setting only afterwards.

[7] In response to those forts on the northern side of the river, the German administration opened a police station in Nkurenkuru on June 17, 1910, which over the following years mainly assumed representative tasks.

With the outbreak of World War I and a murdered German delegation at Naulila, the police station was used to launch an attack on Fort Cuangar on October 31, 1914, in which all present 30 Portuguese and Angolan soldiers were killed.

With the end of the war the station was closed and first replaced by a temporary British occupation and from April 1921 onwards by a permanent governor for the newly established Kavango district.

[8] In 1990 the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia (ELCIN) founded a secondary school in Nkurenkuru with the aid of the Finnish Missionary Society.

[9] During the Angolan Civil War (1975–2002) Nkurenkuru became home for a base of the South African Defence Force.

Only with an ongoing decentralisation policy of the government, which is to counterbalance rural migration, Nkurenkuru gained more economic prosperity.

[12] SWAPO won the 2015 local authority election in Nkurenkuru by a landslide, gaining all seven municipal council seats with 1,303 votes.