WINDHOEK, 30 October 2026 – Warrant Officer Julia Ndeulyatele and her colleagues who formed part of the protection team for the late First Lady Penehupifo Pohamba. (Photo: Andreas Thomas) NAMPA

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

Bayer Leverkusen's Spanish head coach Carles Martinez reacts after the German first division Bundesliga football match between Bayer Leverkusen and VfB Stuttgart in Leverkusen, western Germany, on October 31, 2026. (Photo by Sascha Schuermann / AFP) / DFL REGULATIONS PROHIBIT ANY USE OF PHOTOGRAPHS AS IMAGE SEQUENCES AND/OR QUASI-VIDEO

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks at a news conference during the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 31, 2026. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is hosting his G20 counterparts, including Russia's Sergei Lavrov, for talks that are expected to be fractious, with wars in Ukraine and Iran and surging energy prices fanning discord. The foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, taking place just days before crucial US midterm elections, will set the stage for a December G20 leaders' summit in Miami at President Donald Trump's Doral resort. (Photo by Erik S. Lesser / AFP)

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks at a news conference during the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 31, 2026. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is hosting his G20 counterparts, including Russia's Sergei Lavrov, for talks that are expected to be fractious, with wars in Ukraine and Iran and surging energy prices fanning discord. The foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, taking place just days before crucial US midterm elections, will set the stage for a December G20 leaders' summit in Miami at President Donald Trump's Doral resort. (Photo by Erik S. Lesser / AFP)

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky looks on during a press conference with his Turkish counterpart at the Presidency Working Office in Dolmabahce, in Istanbul on October 31, 2026. Ukrainian President will meet his Turkish counterpart, on October 31, 2026, on a working visit to Turkey for talks over war with Russia and the security situation in the Black Sea, the Turkish presidency said. (Photo by BERK OZKAN / AFP)

A protester launches a tear gas canister towards French police officers at the end of a protest march during nationwide demonstrations over the rising cost of living and inequality organised by Yellow Vest movement, labour unions and high school and university students, in Paris on October 31, 2026.. "Exceptional" security deployment with 70,000 police officers and gendarmes mobilized and an alarmist tone: for Act III of the protests against the high cost of living, right in the middle of Halloween festivities, the authorities fear a repeat of the October 17 nightmare. France has been rocked by widespread anger over the rising cost of living and inequality. (Photo by Sameer AL-DOUMY / AFP)

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks at a news conference during the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 31, 2026. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is hosting his G20 counterparts, including Russia's Sergei Lavrov, for talks that are expected to be fractious, with wars in Ukraine and Iran and surging energy prices fanning discord. The foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, taking place just days before crucial US midterm elections, will set the stage for a December G20 leaders' summit in Miami at President Donald Trump's Doral resort. (Photo by Erik S. Lesser / AFP)

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives to speak at a news conference during the G20 foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 31, 2026. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is hosting his G20 counterparts, including Russia's Sergei Lavrov, for talks that are expected to be fractious, with wars in Ukraine and Iran and surging energy prices fanning discord. The foreign ministers' meeting in Atlanta, taking place just days before crucial US midterm elections, will set the stage for a December G20 leaders' summit in Miami at President Donald Trump's Doral resort. (Photo by Erik S. Lesser / AFP)

French police officers face protesters at the end of a protest march during nationwide demonstrations over the rising cost of living and inequality organised by Yellow Vest movement, labour unions and high school and university students, in Paris on October 31, 2026. "Exceptional" security deployment with 70,000 police officers and gendarmes mobilized and an alarmist tone: for Act III of the protests against the high cost of living, right in the middle of Halloween festivities, the authorities fear a repeat of the October 17 nightmare. France has been rocked by widespread anger over the rising cost of living and inequality. (Photo by Sameer AL-DOUMY / AFP)