SWAKOPMUND, 12 Decemeber 2025 - Newly elected Erongo Regional Council Chairperson and councillor of the Karibib Constituency Lazarus Kanelombe during his maiden media conference. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

OMARURU, 11 December 2025 - Some of the 153 trainees who graduated from the Namibian Correctional Service’s ninth Basic Orientation training course at the Lucius Mahoto Correctional Service Training College on Thursday. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 02 December 2025 - The Presidential Task Force on Housing and Land Delivery is responsible for decreasing the housing backlog and lowering the number of households in informal settlements. (Photo by: Uakutura Kambaekua) NAMPA

UIS, 10 December 2025 - Erongo Governor Natalia |Goagoses greeting some attendees of the International Human Rights Day and Namibian Women’s day commemoration held at Uis on Wednesday. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

Senior Vice President at German tech defence start-up Stark Josef Kranawetvogl gives explanations on the Virtus strike drone during an AFP interview on December 10, 2025 at the company’s show room in Berlin. Defence giants are drawing battle lines as Germany rearms, with the old guard arguing for a continued focus on traditional heavy weaponry while start-ups push for a shift to more modern kit like AI-enabled drones. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY by Sam Reeves with Femke Colborne

Participants listen to a presentation at the Budai Campus of the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences (MATE) in Budapest, Hungary, on November 13, 2025, during the the 7th National Viticulture and Winemaking conference. An outbreak of the flavescence doree disease has ravaged Europe's wine regions, including in Hungary. Flavescence doree (FD) is "one of the most dangerous diseases" threatening vineyards today, according to the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV). Infection -- usually indicated by discoloured leaves -- greatly reduces vine productivity, and there is no known cure, although it is not harmful to humans. FD is transmitted primarily by the American grapevine leafhopper, a pest that has spread significantly across central Europe in recent years. (Photo by Attila KISBENEDEK / AFP)

Elisa Angelini, researcher at the Italian Centre for Research in Viticulture and Enology, gives a presentation about her field of science at the Budai Campus of the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences (MATE) in Budapest, Hungary, on November 13, 2025, during the the 7th National Viticulture and Winemaking conference. An outbreak of the flavescence doree disease has ravaged Europe's wine regions, including in Hungary. Flavescence doree (FD) is "one of the most dangerous diseases" threatening vineyards today, according to the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV). Infection -- usually indicated by discoloured leaves -- greatly reduces vine productivity, and there is no known cure, although it is not harmful to humans. FD is transmitted primarily by the American grapevine leafhopper, a pest that has spread significantly across central Europe in recent years. (Photo by Attila KISBENEDEK / AFP)

Hungarian winemaker Viktor Keszler shows infected vine plants in his vineyard of Zalaszentgrot, about 200 km west from the Hungarian capital Budapest on November 6, 2025. An outbreak of the flavescence doree disease has ravaged Europe's wine regions, including in Hungary. Flavescence doree (FD) is "one of the most dangerous diseases" threatening vineyards today, according to the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV). Infection -- usually indicated by discoloured leaves -- greatly reduces vine productivity, and there is no known cure, although it is not harmful to humans. FD is transmitted primarily by the American grapevine leafhopper, a pest that has spread significantly across central Europe in recent years. (Photo by Attila KISBENEDEK / AFP)