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)

31 December 2025, Berlin: Passers-by stand at a checkpoint at the entrance to the pyrotechnics ban zone on Alexanderplatz during New Year's Eve. At the turn of the year, there are four firecracker ban zones in Berlin in which, in addition to a ban on fireworks and firecrackers, the carrying of knives and weapons is also prohibited. Photo: Sebastian Christoph Gollnow/dpa

31 December 2025, North Rhine-Westphalia, Cologne: Security forces control an entrance to the protection zone around the Domplatte in Cologne, where carrying and setting off firecrackers and rockets is prohibited. Photo: Christoph Reichwein/dpa

31 December 2025, North Rhine-Westphalia, Cologne: Police vehicles park in a parking lot at the exit of the main train station near Cologne Cathedral. Photo: Christoph Reichwein/dpa

(260101) -- YANGON, Jan. 1, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Fireworks explode to celebrate the New Year in Yangon, Myanmar, Jan. 1, 2026. (Xinhua/Myo Kyaw Soe)