WINDHOEK, 26 December 2025 - The Katutura State Hospital maternity ward. (Photo by: Edward Tenete) NAMPA

KATIMA MULILO, 25 December 2025 - Sister Emely Chidolo speaks to Nampa while 19-year-old first-time mother, Emelia Kachelo takes a recuperation nap on her hospital bed on Thursday afternoon. (Photo by: Michael Mutonga Liswaniso) NAMPA

Okatana Constituency councillor Petrus Shigwedha Ashipala. (Photo: Contributed)

GROOTFONTEIN, 19 December 2025 - The accident scene where two trucks and a passenger bus were involved in a collision Friday afternoon outside Grootfontein in the Otjozondjupa Region. (Photo: Contributed)

(251228) -- TAIPEI, Dec. 28, 2025 (Xinhua) -- Exterior tiles on a pedestrian bridge are damaged after an earthquake in New Taipei City, southeast China's Taiwan, Dec. 27, 2025. A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck the waters off Yilan County, Taiwan, at 11:05 p.m. Saturday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The epicenter was monitored at 24.67 degrees north latitude and 122.06 degrees east longitude. The earthquake struck at a depth of 60 km, the center said. The earthquake was felt across Taiwan, with noticeable building shaking. No casualties or property damage reports have been released on the island so far. (Xinhua)

Security personnel stand guard amid dense smog at a railway station in Lahore on December 28, 2025. (Photo by Arif ALI / AFP)

Workers sweep a street amid dense smog in Lahore on December 28, 2025. (Photo by Arif ALI / AFP)

A woman and a child walk past the Andaw Thein temple in Mrauk U, in Myanmar's western Rakhine state on December 28, 2025. Myanmar's civil war has seen the military lose swathes of the country to rebel forces -- a mix of pro-democracy guerillas and ethnic minority armies which have long resisted central rule -- and the vote will not take place in the areas they control. (Photo by AFP)