WINDHOEK, 08 December 2025 - Minister of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sports, Arts and Culture, Sanet Steenkamp (C) pictured during a media conference of the announcement of subsidised tertiary education funding model. (Photo by: Mathilde Kudumo) NAMPA

SWAKOPMUND, 07 December 2025 - Namibian cyclist Nina Holtrup pictured at the finish line after winning the 2025 Nedbank Desert Dash. The 21st edition of the iconic endurance event saw riders take off from the Grove Mall in Windhoek and concluded at Platz Am Meer in Swakopmund, riding across the Namib Desert. (Photo by: Hesron Kapanga) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 05 December 2025 - Namibia’s endurance cyclist Drikus Coetzee in action during the 2025 Nedbank Desert Dash. (Photo by: Hesron Kapanga) NAMPA

OTJIWARONGO, 04 December 2025 - Briefings on the rehabilitation and resurfacing of roads at Otjiwarongo took place at the Otjiwarongo Municipality chambers on Thursday. (Photo by: Mulisa Simiyasa) NAMPA

France's President Emmanuel Macron (C-R) welcomes Croatia's Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic (C-R) prior to a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on December 8, 2025. (Photo by Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP)

Pope Leo XIV waves to the crowd from the popemobile in Via dei Condotti as he arrives to pay homage to the Immaculate Conception, near the Spanish steps in Rome, on December 8, 2025. (Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP)

Oksana Nechyporenko (L) and Mariia Yefrosinina, founders of the Ukrainian Masha Foundation, deliver a speech after receiving the International Gender Equality Prize at the prize ceremony in Tampere, Finland, on December 8, 2025. The Masha Foundation is a Ukrainian public organisation which carries out significant work to help Ukrainian women overcome the psychological consequences of war and other violence. Finland awarded the International Gender Equality Prize for the fifth time. (Photo by Antti Aimo-Koivisto / Lehtikuva / AFP) / Finland OUT

Members of Dance Centre Kenya (DCK) perform in their 10th-anniversary annual ballet production, The Nutcracker, with the DCK Orchestra at the Kenya National Theatre in Nairobi on December 6, 2025. Dance Centre Kenya (DCK) is one of East Africa’s leading performing arts schools, training hundreds of students each year in ballet, contemporary, and other dance forms, and provides opportunities for talented young dancers from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds to perform in major productions like The Nutcracker. (Photo by YASUYOSHI CHIBA / STF / AFP)