SHARUKWE, 30 October 2026 - The Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism on Thursday held a Traditional Seed Fair at the Sharukwe Community Seed Bank in Kavango West. (Photo: Lylie Joel) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 30 October 2026 - The Bank of Namibia headquarters in Windhoek. (Photo: Contributed)

KALKRAND, 30 October 2026 - The inaugural Kalkrand Marketing Expo officially started on Thursday. (Photo: Joe-Chintha Garises)

SHARUKWE, 30 October 2026 - The Sharukwe Community Seed Bank at Sharukwe village in Kavango West. (Photo: Lylie Joel) NAMPA

NANKUTWE, 28 October 2026 - The Namibian Defence Force (NDF) has donated sanitary pads and toiletries to learners at Nankutwe Combined School in the Kabbe South Constituency of the Zambezi Region. Pictured here is Colonel Glenda Lukubwe Simasiku, the Senior Staff Officer heading the Gender Division at MODVA, who spoke at the ceremony on behalf of the NDF Women’s Network. (Photo: Michael Mutonga Liswaniso) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 29 October 2026 - Namibia Breweries Limited (NBL) will invest approximately N$13 million over five years in a project aimed at improving water security in the Swakop River Basin, following the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement with WWF Namibia and Global Water Challenge (GWC) on Thursday. (Photo: Contributed)

OTJIWARONGO, 29 October 2026 - Okakarara Health Directorate Practitioner Olivia Mbabi speaks at an information-sharing session in Otjiwarongo on Thursday. (Photo: Mulisa Simiyasa) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 01 July 2026 - The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Agricultural Bank of Namibia (Agribank), Dr Robert Eiman. (Photo: Contributed) NAMPA

(261030) -- BEIJING, Oct. 30, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Li Xi, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and secretary of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), presides over a meeting of the CCDI Standing Committee to study the guiding principles from the fifth plenary session of the 20th CPC Central Committee in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 30, 2026. (Xinhua/Yue Yuewei)

(261030) -- BEIJING, Oct. 30, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Li Qiang meets with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who is on a state visit to China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 30, 2026. (Xinhua/Huang Jingwen)

People are seen in a bar with Halloween decoration in the district of Xuhui, in Shanghai on October 30, 2026. (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL / AFP)

People are seen in a bar with Halloween decoration in the district of Xuhui, in Shanghai on October 30, 2026. (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL / AFP)

Revellers dressed in Halloween costumes walk along a street in the district of Xuhui, in Shanghai on October 30, 2026. (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL / AFP)

Revellers dressed in Halloween costumes walk along a street in the district of Xuhui, in Shanghai on October 30, 2026. (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL / AFP)

(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on October 30, 2026 shows (L/R) Democratic candidate for US Senate Abdul El-Sayed in Warren, Michigan on October 3, 2026 and Republican candidate for US Senate Mike Rogers in Grosse Point Woods, Michigan on October 28, 2026. Americans vote on November 3 in midterm elections that will decide whether President Donald Trump's Republicans retain control of Congress or spend the final two years of his term confronting Democratic majorities. An important Republican Senate pickup opportunity pits former congressman Mike Rogers against progressive Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, to fill the seat of retiring Democratic Senator Gary Peters. (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP)

A man waves at Colombian soldier patrolling the streets of Cucuta, Norte de Santander Department, Colombia, on October 30, 2026. Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella on October 29, ordered the temporary "militarization" of Cucuta, a city bordering Venezuela after a wave of recent violence linked to criminal groups. Over the past few days in Cucuta, a mayoral candidate was murdered and a bombing left four police officers injured, according to the local government. (Photo by Schneyder MENDOZA / AFP)