GABORONE, 06 July 2026 - Southern African officials will meet in Johannesburg from 15 to 17 July to advance public spending efficiency through cost-benefit analysis. (Photo: Contributed) NAMPA.

NEW YORK, 07 July 2026 - Diene Keita, Executive Director of UNFPA. (Photo: Contributed) NAMPA.

WINDHOEK, 07 July 2026 - Ana Beatriz Martins, European Union (EU) Ambassador to Namibia. (Photo: Contributed) NAMPA

GENEVA, 06 July 2026 - Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Emma Theofelus, pictured with Chairperson of the PowerCom Board, Eldorette Harmse, Director of the Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Dr Cosmas Luckyson Zavazava; and Namibia's Ambassador to the Swiss Confederation and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva, Elvis Shiweda, during the Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday. (Photo by: Josephina Simeon) NAMPA

GUANGZHOU, 06 July 2026 - A car assembly line at the Guangzhou Automobile Group (GAC) car company. GAC is China’s state-owned automaker. Which manufactures vehicles under its own marques (GAC Motor and AION) and operates highly successful joint ventures with Honda and Toyota. With global reach across 86 regions, it is rapidly expanding into EVs and international production. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

GUANGZHOU, 06 July 2026 - China's GAC International plans to establish a vehicle assembly operation in Namibia before the end of 2026 as part of its expansion into Southern Africa. The right-hand-drive AION V electric vehicle (pictured here) will be among the models assembled at the envisioned motor assembly plant. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

GUANGZHOU, 06 July 2026 - China's GAC International plans to establish a vehicle assembly operation in Namibia before the end of 2026 as part of its expansion into Southern Africa. The right-hand-drive AION V electric vehicle (pictured here) will be among the models assembled at the envisioned motor assembly plant. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

WALVIS BAY, 24 April 2026 - President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah and Vice President Lucia Witbooi accompanied by other senior officials during a recent visit to the Seaworks fishing factory in Walvis Bay. They are looking at some of the most popularly imported seafood. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

(FILES) Employees of German car maker Volkswagen (VW) demonstrate outside VW cars plant in Wolfsburg, central Germany, on December 2, 2024, as thousands of Volkswagen workers go on strike all over Germany in an escalating industrial dispute at the crisis-hit German auto giant with thousands of jobs at stake. German auto giant Volkswagen's management meet on July 9, 2026 to thrash out plans for what could be the biggest ever restructuring in the global auto industry with unions set to protest any mass job cuts. (Photo by Julian Stratenschulte / POOL / AFP)

(FILES) Hungarian President Tamás Sulyok (L), Hungarian politician and candidate for speaker of Parliament Agnes Forsthoffer, Hungary's incoming Prime Minister Peter Magyar attend the inaugural session of the new Parliament and the ceremonial swearing in of representatives in Budapest on May 9, 2026. Hungary's lawmakers face a busy summer at the office, as Prime Minister Peter Magyar rushes to dismantle the political system built to cement Viktor Orban's hardline 16-year rule. (Photo by Attila KISBENEDEK / AFP)

A cancer patient remains admitted to a room at the Institute of Oncology and Radiobiology in Havana on July 2, 2026. In the midst of one of the worst economic crises Cuba has experienced in decades, the health system is striving to maintain its services and priority programmes despite medicine and supply shortages, technological deterioration, staff shortages, prolonged power cuts and the impact of the United States sanctions. (Photo by YAMIL LAGE / AFP)

Cuban cancer patients remain hospitalised in a room at the Institute of Oncology and Radiobiology in Havana on July 2, 2026. In the midst of one of the worst economic crises Cuba has experienced in decades, the health system is striving to maintain its services and priority programmes despite medicine and supply shortages, technological deterioration, staff shortages, prolonged power cuts and the impact of the United States sanctions. (Photo by YAMIL LAGE / AFP)

A woman remains sitting at the Oncology and Radiobiology Institute in Havana on 1 July 2026. In the midst of one of the worst economic crises Cuba has experienced in decades, the health system is striving to maintain its services and priority programmes despite medicine and supply shortages, technological deterioration, staff shortages, prolonged power cuts and the impact of the United States sanctions. (Photo by YAMIL LAGE / AFP)

A patient with renal failure receives haemodialysis treatment at the Hermanos Ameijeiras Clinical Surgical Hospital in Havana, Cuba, on July 2, 2026. In the midst of one of the worst economic crises Cuba has experienced in decades, the health system is striving to maintain its services and priority programmes despite medicine and supply shortages, technological deterioration, staff shortages, prolonged power cuts and the impact of the United States sanctions. (Photo by YAMIL LAGE / AFP)

Patients wait at the Institute of Oncology and Radiobiology in Havana on July 1, 2026. In the midst of one of the worst economic crises Cuba has experienced in decades, the health system is striving to maintain its services and priority programmes despite medicine and supply shortages, technological deterioration, staff shortages, prolonged power cuts and the impact of the United States sanctions. (Photo by YAMIL LAGE / AFP)

Patients with renal failure receive haemodialysis treatment at the Hermanos Ameijeiras Clinical Surgical Hospital in Havana, Cuba, on July 2, 2026. In the midst of one of the worst economic crises Cuba has experienced in decades, the health system is striving to maintain its services and priority programmes despite medicine and supply shortages, technological deterioration, staff shortages, prolonged power cuts and the impact of the United States sanctions. (Photo by YAMIL LAGE / AFP)