SICHUAN, 08 July 2026 - Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Land Reform, Inge Zaamwani. (Photo: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

OSHITAYI, 08 July 2026 - Ondangwa Urban Constituency Councillor Leonard Negonga address learners during the Ondangwa Urban Annual Constituency Culture Festival 2026 on Wednesday. (Photo: Ester Hakaala) NAMPA

BEIJING, 09 July 2026 - Director of Sinomine Group and Chief Executive Officer of Sinomine Tsumeb Smelter, Logan Lou Yonggang. (Photo: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

GABORONE, 06 July 2026 - Southern African officials will meet in Johannesburg from 15 to 17 July to advance public spending efficiency through cost-benefit analysis. (Photo: Contributed) NAMPA.

NEW YORK, 07 July 2026 - Diene Keita, Executive Director of UNFPA. (Photo: Contributed) NAMPA.

WINDHOEK, 07 July 2026 - Ana Beatriz Martins, European Union (EU) Ambassador to Namibia. (Photo: Contributed) NAMPA

GENEVA, 06 July 2026 - Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Emma Theofelus, pictured with Chairperson of the PowerCom Board, Eldorette Harmse, Director of the Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Dr Cosmas Luckyson Zavazava; and Namibia's Ambassador to the Swiss Confederation and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva, Elvis Shiweda, during the Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday. (Photo by: Josephina Simeon) NAMPA

GUANGZHOU, 06 July 2026 - A car assembly line at the Guangzhou Automobile Group (GAC) car company. GAC is China’s state-owned automaker. Which manufactures vehicles under its own marques (GAC Motor and AION) and operates highly successful joint ventures with Honda and Toyota. With global reach across 86 regions, it is rapidly expanding into EVs and international production. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

(260710) -- JINJIANG, July 10, 2026 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on July 10, 2026 shows the site of a fire that broke out at a shoe factory in Jiangtou Village, Chendai Township of Jinjiang City, southeast China's Fujian Province. Search efforts largely concluded on Friday following a fatal fire that killed 28 people a day earlier at a shoe factory in the city of Jinjiang, local authorities said. (Xinhua/Chen Wang)

(260710) -- SHANGHAI, July 10, 2026 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on July 9, 2026 shows a view of Shanghai Innovation Institute in Xuhui District of east China's Shanghai. The institute is working with 31 institutions of higher learning to cultivate top-tier talents for artificial intelligence (AI). It boasts over 80 full-time mentors now, and has enrolled more than 800 doctoral students in 45 majors. The mentors and their students are collaborating in cutting-edge areas such as contextual AI, cognitive AI, and embodied AI. (Xinhua/Chen Shuo)

(260710) -- SHANGHAI, July 10, 2026 (Xinhua) -- A teacher communicates with students at Shanghai Innovation Institute in Xuhui District of east China's Shanghai, July 9, 2026. The institute is working with 31 institutions of higher learning to cultivate top-tier talents for artificial intelligence (AI). It boasts over 80 full-time mentors now, and has enrolled more than 800 doctoral students in 45 majors. The mentors and their students are collaborating in cutting-edge areas such as contextual AI, cognitive AI, and embodied AI. (Xinhua/Chen Shuo)

A worker installes a pane of glass at a hotel construction site in Hanoi on July 10, 2026. (Photo by Nhac NGUYEN / AFP)

Workers install a pane of glass at a hotel construction site in Hanoi on July 10, 2026. (Photo by Nhac NGUYEN / AFP)

A worker installs panes of glass at a hotel construction site in Hanoi on July 10, 2026. (Photo by Nhac NGUYEN / AFP)

People ride their motorbike past a hotel construction site in Hanoi on July 10, 2026. (Photo by Nhac NGUYEN / AFP)

FILED - 28 April 2024, Berlin: View of a Bayer logo at the FDP federal party conference in Berlin. Photo: Hannes P Albert/dpa