WINDHOEK, 14 January 2026 - Minister of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sport, Arts and Culture, Sanet Steenkamp pictured during the official announcement of the 2025 NSSCO and NSSCAS examination results in Windhoek. (Photo by: Justina Shuumbwa) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 13 January 2026 - Minister of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sport and Culture, Sanet Steenkamp pictured with some of the top performing learners in the 2025 national examinations. (Photo by: Molly Weyulu) NAMPA

SWAKOPMUND, 13 January 2026 - Stakeholders attending the five-day SADC Agricultural Information Management Systems (AIMS) workshop, which is being held under the second phase of the support towards the Operationalisation of the SADC Regional Agricultural Policy in Swakopmund. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

SWAKOPMUND, 12 January 2026 - Minister of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sport, Arts and Culture Sanet Steenkamp visited several schools in Swakopmund as part of her ministry’s assessment on how schools in Erongo Region were opening and to present the 2025 national examination results to President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

Co-defendant Andreas Costard waits for the start of another session in the trial against defendant German entrepreneur and gastronome Christina Block (not in picture) over alleged child abduction at the District Court in Hamburg, northern Germany, on January 20, 2026. The public prosecutor's office accuses Block, heiress of a steakhouse chain, of ordering the abduction of her daughter, born in 2010, and her son, born in 2013. According to the indictment, the background to this is an escalating custody dispute over many years between Block and her former husband, who have four children together. (Photo by Georg Wendt / POOL / AFP)

Austria's Julia Scheib competes in the first run of the Women's Giant Slalom event of FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup in Kronplatz, Plan de Corones, Italy, on January 20, 2026. (Photo by Marco BERTORELLO / AFP)

New Zealand's Alice Robinson competes in the first run of the Women's Giant Slalom event of FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup in Kronplatz, Plan de Corones, Italy, on January 20, 2026. (Photo by Marco BERTORELLO / AFP)

French union National Federation of Agricultural Holders' Unions (FNSEA) president Arnaud Rousseau (C) takes part in a march by European farmers towards the European Parliament to protest against the free trade agreement between the European Union and the Mercosur countries, on the eve of a vote on a referral to the courts, in Strasbourg on January 20, 2026. Called by the FNSEA, France's leading national agricultural union, some 4,000 farmers from across the European Union, including Italy, Belgium, and Germany, are expected to attend the protest. MEPs will not vote on the entire agreement with Mercosur until the coming months, but they are set to vote on Wednesday on whether to refer the matter to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). (Photo by NICOLAS TUCAT / AFP)