GOCHAS, 20 January 2026 - Minister of Education, Sanet Steenkamp, officially opened the Namaqua Kalahari Children’s Hope Hostel at Gochas on Tuesday. The hostel was donated by the Spanish-based ‘Foundawtion’ organisation. (Photo: Contributed)

ONDANGWA, 20 JANUARY 2026 - The Ondangwa Town Council has expressed concern over the increasing vandalism of street and road regulatory signs within the town, warning that the acts pose safety risks to road users and place an unnecessary financial burden on the local authority. (Photo: Contributed)

WINDHOEK, 17 January 2026 - UNHCR country representative Kavita Belani (Photo: Andreas Thomas) NAMPA

EPUKIRO, 14 January 2026 - Epukiro Secondary School's staff celebrates the school's achievement in the Grade 12 NSSCAS results. (Photo: Contributed)

Protesters enter a buffer zone during a rally against an offensive of Syrian government forces against Kurdish forces, near Nusaybin border gate in Mardin, on the Turkey-Syria border, on January 20, 2026. Clashes erupted on Turkey's border with Syria on between police and pro-Kurdish protesters angered by a Syrian military offensive targeting Kurds, an AFP correspondent said. The violence broke out in the border town of Nusaybin, just across from the northern Syrian town of Qamishli, at a protest called by the pro-Kurdish DEM, Turkey's third-largest party. (Photo by Ilyas AKENGIN / AFP)

Protesters enter a buffer zone during a rally against an offensive of Syrian government forces against Kurdish forces, near Nusaybin border gate in Mardin, on the Turkey-Syria border, on January 20, 2026. Clashes erupted on Turkey's border with Syria on between police and pro-Kurdish protesters angered by a Syrian military offensive targeting Kurds, an AFP correspondent said. The violence broke out in the border town of Nusaybin, just across from the northern Syrian town of Qamishli, at a protest called by the pro-Kurdish DEM, Turkey's third-largest party. (Photo by Ilyas AKENGIN / AFP)

Protesters stand at a fence as others enter buffer zone during a rally against an offensive of Syrian government forces against Kurdish forces, near Nusaybin border gate in Mardin, on the Turkey-Syria border, on January 20, 2026. Clashes erupted on Turkey's border with Syria on between police and pro-Kurdish protesters angered by a Syrian military offensive targeting Kurds, an AFP correspondent said. The violence broke out in the border town of Nusaybin, just across from the northern Syrian town of Qamishli, at a protest called by the pro-Kurdish DEM, Turkey's third-largest party. (Photo by Ilyas AKENGIN / AFP)

Co-leaders of pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) Tuncer Bakirhan (3rd R), Tulay Hatimogullari (2nd R) and supporters holds a banner reading "Rojava is conscience, freedom, resistance. It cannot be taken" during a rally against an offensive of Syrian government forces against Kurdish forces, near Nusaybin border gate in Mardin, on the Turkey-Syria border, on January 20, 2026. Clashes erupted on Turkey's border with Syria on between police and pro-Kurdish protesters angered by a Syrian military offensive targeting Kurds, an AFP correspondent said. The violence broke out in the border town of Nusaybin, just across from the northern Syrian town of Qamishli, at a protest called by the pro-Kurdish DEM, Turkey's third-largest party. (Photo by Ilyas AKENGIN / AFP)