Walvis Bay, 07 August 2026 - Traffic on the Independence Road in along Kuisebmund in Walvis Bay. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

SWAKOPMUND, 07 August 2026 - (l-f) Works and Transport Minister Veikko Nekundi, Erongo Governor Natalia /Goagoses, Erongo Regional Council Chairperson Lazarus Kanelombe, Walvis Bay Rural Constituency Councillor Ruben Shikongo and Walvis Bay Chief Executive Officer Victoria Kapenda among others photographed at the handover of the N$132 million project for the rehabilitation of six dilapidated roads covering approximately eight kilometres in Walvis Bay. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 22 June 2026 - Plans for Namibia Air are advancing following a significant regulatory breakthrough on Thursday, as the Transport Commission granted Air Operating Licenses to the Ministry of Works and Transport. (Photo by: Uakutura Kambaekua) NAMPA.

WINDHOEK, 06 August 2026 - Namibia University of Science and Technology Council Chairperson Leake Hangala. (Photo: Andreas Thomas) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 06 August 2026 - Finance Minister Ericah Shafudah. (Photo: Andreas Thomas) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 06 August 2026 - Finance Minister Ericah Shafudah. (Photo: Andreas Thomas) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 06 August 2026 – President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah addresses an engagement with chief executive officers and chairpersons of Namibia's 78 State-owned enterprises, organised by the Public Enterprises CEOs' Forum. (Photo: Andreas Thomas) NAMPA

OPUWO, 06 August 2026 - Some of the 24 completed Mass Housing Development Programme houses handed over to beneficiaries in Opuwo, Kunene Region, on Thursday. (Photo: Kaviveterue Virere) NAMPA

(260809) -- NINGXIANG, Aug. 9, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Workers are seen at a workshop of the Hunan Pengbo New Materials Co., Ltd. in Ningxiang City, central China's Hunan Province, July 5, 2026. Ningxiang City has focused on developing the advanced energy storage materials industry and has built a complete industrial chain covering energy storage materials, battery cell manufacturing and used battery recycling. From January to May this year, the city had 43 major enterprises in the energy storage materials sector, with the industry's output value exceeding 26 billion yuan (about 3.6 billion U.S. dollars). (Xinhua/Lu Peng)

(260809) -- NINGXIANG, Aug. 9, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Workers are seen at a factory of the Changsha FinDreams Battery Co., Ltd. in Ningxiang City, central China's Hunan Province, July 5, 2026. Ningxiang City has focused on developing the advanced energy storage materials industry and has built a complete industrial chain covering energy storage materials, battery cell manufacturing and used battery recycling. From January to May this year, the city had 43 major enterprises in the energy storage materials sector, with the industry's output value exceeding 26 billion yuan (about 3.6 billion U.S. dollars). (Xinhua/Lu Peng)

(260809) -- NINGXIANG, Aug. 9, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Robots work at a factory of the Changsha FinDreams Battery Co., Ltd. in Ningxiang City, central China's Hunan Province, July 5, 2026. Ningxiang City has focused on developing the advanced energy storage materials industry and has built a complete industrial chain covering energy storage materials, battery cell manufacturing and used battery recycling. From January to May this year, the city had 43 major enterprises in the energy storage materials sector, with the industry's output value exceeding 26 billion yuan (about 3.6 billion U.S. dollars). (Xinhua/Lu Peng)

(260809) -- NINGXIANG, Aug. 9, 2026 (Xinhua) -- People visit the exhibition hall of the Hunan CNGR New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. in Ningxiang City, central China's Hunan Province, July 5, 2026. Ningxiang City has focused on developing the advanced energy storage materials industry and has built a complete industrial chain covering energy storage materials, battery cell manufacturing and used battery recycling. From January to May this year, the city had 43 major enterprises in the energy storage materials sector, with the industry's output value exceeding 26 billion yuan (about 3.6 billion U.S. dollars). (Xinhua/Lu Peng)

(260809) -- CAIRO, Aug. 9, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Egrets wait for prey along the Nile River in Cairo, Egypt, Aug. 9, 2026. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa)

(260809) -- CAIRO, Aug. 9, 2026 (Xinhua) -- An egret flies over the Nile River in Cairo, Egypt, Aug. 9, 2026. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa)

(260809) -- CAIRO, Aug. 9, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Egrets are seen along the Nile River in Cairo, Egypt, Aug. 9, 2026. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa)

(260809) -- SHANGHAI, Aug. 9, 2026 (Xinhua) -- A father and his child walk amid rain at Huangpu District of Shanghai, east China, on Aug. 9, 2026. China's eastern metropolis Shanghai issued its highest rainstorm alert Sunday over rising risks of urban waterlogging brought by Typhoon Dolphin, the 13th typhoon of the year that has a great impact on the country's coastal regions. China's national observatory on Sunday activated a red alert -- the highest level in the country's typhoon warning system -- as Typhoon Dolphin approaches. Typhoon Dolphin is forecast to make landfall along the country's east coast from Sanmen in Zhejiang Province to Fuding in Fujian Province around Sunday evening to the early hours of Monday, according to the National Meteorological Center (NMC). (Xinhua/Wang Xiang)