KEETMANSHOOP, 19 March 2026 - Governor of the ||Kharas Region, Dawid Gertze, on Thursday stated that the inauguration of the Keetmanshoop Vocational Training Centre (KVTC) will contribute directly to strengthening the economic resilience of the region. Gertze made these remarks during the official opening of the technical institution in Keetmanshoop. (Photo by: Chelva Wells) NAMPA

KEETMANSHOOP, 19 March 2026 - Vice President Lucia Witbooi delivers the keynote address and officially opens the Keetmanshoop Vocational Training Centre. (Photo by: Chelva Wells) NAMPA

19 March 2026 - The Independence Day celebration logo for 2026. (Photo: Contributed)

WINDHOEK, 18 March 2026 - Deputy Minister of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sports, Arts, and Culture Dino Ballotti and Governor of the Khomas Region, Sam Shafiishuna Nujoma, pictured at the Government information Centre. (Photo by: Molly Weyulu) NAMPA

20 March 2026, North Rhine-Westphalia, Cologne: British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie sits on stage at the Funkhaus as part of the Lit.Cologne literary festival. Photo: Rolf Vennenbernd/dpa

20 March 2026, Rhineland-Palatinate, Koblenz: Daniela Schmitt, The Free Democratic Party (FDP) top candidate and Minister of Economics, Transportation, Agriculture, and Viticulture, speaks at Jesuitenplatz in Koblenz during a campaign event for the state election in Rhineland-Palatinate. Photo: Sascha Ditscher/dpa

This photograph shows the logo of the French parcels delivery company Relais Colis on a sign in a business parking lot in Creteil, in the southeastern suburbs of Paris on March 20, 2026. The delivery company Relais Colis has been placed in receivership after some fifty years of operation, due to an "unfavorable economic context", AFP learned on March 20, 2026, from the Bobigny commercial court. (Photo by Charlotte SIEMON / AFP)

(FILES) Demonstrators gather on Cambridge Common to protest Harvard's stance on the war in Gaza and show support for the Palestinian people, outside Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 25, 2025. The Trump administration filed a lawsuit on March 20, 2026, against Harvard University, accusing the institution of allowing a "hostile environment" toward Jewish and Israeli students during pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus from 2023 to 2025. President Donald Trump has launched an offensive against major American universities, accusing them of giving free rein on their campuses to pro-Palestinian movements in the face of the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, action which he equates with antisemitism. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP)