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)

Swimmers celebrate New Year's Day by taking a traditional first bath of the year at Sant Sebastia beach in Barceloneta neighbourhood, Barcelona, on January 1, 2026. (Photo by Manaure Quintero / AFP)

Swimmers prepare to celebrate New Year's Day by taking a traditional first bath of the year at Sant Sebastia beach in Barceloneta neighbourhood, Barcelona, on January 1, 2026. (Photo by Manaure Quintero / AFP)

Swimmers prepare to celebrate New Year's Day by taking a traditional first bath of the year at Sant Sebastia beach in Barceloneta neighbourhood, Barcelona, on January 1, 2026. (Photo by Manaure Quintero / AFP)

A photograph taken on January 1, 2026 shows the Vondelkerk church after one of the tower caught fire, during New Year's Eve, in Amsterdam. A huge inferno gutted a 19th century Amsterdam church, as the Netherlands endured an unsettled New Year's Eve with two dead from fireworks and "unprecedented" violence against police. (Photo by Koen van Weel / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands OUT