ONANDJABA, 02 July 2026 – Chairperson of the Onandjaba Village Council, Erkki Kandjaba. (Photo: Contributed)

ONANDJABA, 02 July 2026 – Chairperson of the Onandjaba Village Council, Erkki Kandjaba. (Photo: Contributed)

MARIENTAL, 02 July 2026 - The NamPower Foundation has donated baby care essentials to vulnerable mothers in the Hardap Rural Constituency. (Photo: Joe-Chintha Garises) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 01 July 2026 - Minister of International Relations and Trade, Selma Ashipala-Musavyi, and the United States of America's Ambassador to Namibia, John Giordano, pictured at the USA's 250th Independence Day celebrations in Windhoek. (Photo by: Eba Kandovazu) NAMPA

GIBEON, 01 July 2026 - Residents of Gibeon have petitioned the Namibian Police Force’s Hardap regional commander, calling for an urgent investigation into allegations of police brutality and abuse of authority at the Gibeon Police Station. (Photo: Contributed)

OPUWO, 01 July 2026 - Minister of Urban and Rural Development James Sankwasa and the governor of Kunene Region, Vipuakuje Muharukua, during a stakeholder engagement on Wednesday in Opuwo. (Photo: Kaviveterue Virere) NAMPA

MPUNGU, 01 July 2026 - The construction of classrooms is underway at Cause Primary School in the Mpungu Constituency. (Photo: Lylie Joel) NAMPA

MPUNGU, 01 July 2026 - The construction of classrooms is underway at Cause Primary School in the Mpungu Constituency (Photo by: Lylie Joel) NAMPA

(FILES) Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 laureate and South Korean writer Han Kang addresses a press conference at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden on December 6, 2024. After English, Spanish, and Arabic, the Avignon Festival has chosen Korean as its guest language for its 80th edition, which begins on July 4, 2026, notably through the presence of artists from the peninsula and of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Han Kang. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP)

(FILES) This photo taken on November 9, 2023 shows South Korean author Han Kang as she poses after co-winning (jointly with Portuguese author Lidia Jorge) the Medicis Prize for a foreign novel in Paris. After English, Spanish, and Arabic, the Avignon Festival has chosen Korean as its guest language for its 80th edition, which begins on July 4, 2026, notably through the presence of artists from the peninsula and of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Han Kang. (Photo by Geoffroy VAN DER HASSELT / AFP) / ALTERNATIVE CROP

(FILES) Nobel Prize in Literature 2024 laureate, South Korean writer Han Kang delivers a speech during the Nobel Prize banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, Sweden on December 10, 2024. After English, Spanish, and Arabic, the Avignon Festival has chosen Korean as its guest language for its 80th edition, which begins on July 4, 2026, notably through the presence of artists from the peninsula and of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Han Kang. (Photo by Jonathan NACKSTRAND / AFP)

(FILES) A screen displaying a portrait of Tajikistan's President Emomali Rakhmon sits on a modern administrative building in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe on March 20, 2026. (Photo by AFP)

(FILES) A huge screen displays a portrait of Tajikistan's President Emomali Rakhmon in the capital Dushanbe on March 9, 2026. (Photo by AFP)

A man holds a book of Tajik names at a bookstore in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe on June 30, 2026. (Photo by AFP)

An employee of a civil registry office prepares a baby's birth certificate before hanging it to a mother in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe on June 30, 2026. (Photo by AFP)

Babies' birth certificates sit on a shelf in a civil registry office in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe on June 30, 2026. (Photo by AFP)