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)

(260121) -- LIJIANG, Jan. 21, 2026 (Xinhua) -- A customer learns about the Chinese mouth harp at the "Wayfarers" music club at the ancient city of Lijiang, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Jan. 16, 2026. He Dehua, 51, and his wife refurbished an old house of theirs in October 2025, and turned it into a music club called "Wayfarers," where they can share their personal stories with travelers and long-lost friends. The name "Wayfarers" came from a CD He had co-produced, drawing inspiration from his memory of watching elders of the family leaving hometown to work for livelihood. "We are all wayfarers in our own life, but we must not forget to search for the truth of life and the true self," said He. He has been a career musician for about three decades since he went to learn guitar playing in Beijing in 1997. Back to his hometown in Lijiang, he started to challenge himself by impressing the visitors to this olden city with music, songs and sounds of nature. He set out to collect voices and sounds in 2011, and has garnered more than 200 hours of recordings, which included some intangible cultural heritage items, voices in routine life, and melodies performed by folk artists. (Xinhua/Gao Yongwei)

(260121) -- LIJIANG, Jan. 21, 2026 (Xinhua) -- He Dehua collects sounds beside the Yuhe River at the ancient city of Lijiang, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Jan. 16, 2026. He Dehua, 51, and his wife refurbished an old house of theirs in October 2025, and turned it into a music club called "Wayfarers," where they can share their personal stories with travelers and long-lost friends. The name "Wayfarers" came from a CD He had co-produced, drawing inspiration from his memory of watching elders of the family leaving hometown to work for livelihood. "We are all wayfarers in our own life, but we must not forget to search for the truth of life and the true self," said He. He has been a career musician for about three decades since he went to learn guitar playing in Beijing in 1997. Back to his hometown in Lijiang, he started to challenge himself by impressing the visitors to this olden city with music, songs and sounds of nature. He set out to collect voices and sounds in 2011, and has garnered more than 200 hours of recordings, which included some intangible cultural heritage items, voices in routine life, and melodies performed by folk artists. (Xinhua/Jiang Wenyao)

(260121) -- LIJIANG, Jan. 21, 2026 (Xinhua) -- He Dehua (R) sets up music player for customers at the "Wayfarers" music club at the ancient city of Lijiang, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Jan. 16, 2026. He Dehua, 51, and his wife refurbished an old house of theirs in October 2025, and turned it into a music club called "Wayfarers," where they can share their personal stories with travelers and long-lost friends. The name "Wayfarers" came from a CD He had co-produced, drawing inspiration from his memory of watching elders of the family leaving hometown to work for livelihood. "We are all wayfarers in our own life, but we must not forget to search for the truth of life and the true self," said He. He has been a career musician for about three decades since he went to learn guitar playing in Beijing in 1997. Back to his hometown in Lijiang, he started to challenge himself by impressing the visitors to this olden city with music, songs and sounds of nature. He set out to collect voices and sounds in 2011, and has garnered more than 200 hours of recordings, which included some intangible cultural heritage items, voices in routine life, and melodies performed by folk artists. (Xinhua/Wang Guansen)

(260121) -- GELIDA, Jan. 21, 2026 (Xinhua) -- This photo shows the site of a train derailment accident in Gelida, Spain, Jan. 21, 2026. Two separate trains derailed in Spain's northeastern region of Catalonia Tuesday evening, killing one driver and injuring 37, after a deadly train collision killed more than 40 people on Sunday, Spanish national television RTVE reported. According to Catalan emergency services, one of the accidents occurred on the R4 suburban line near the town of Gelida in Barcelona province, where a retaining wall alongside the railway line suddenly collapsed as a train was passing. The collapse forced the train to derail and damaged the driver's cab. (Photo by Joan Gosa/Xinhua)