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

Commuters walk along a road in Uvira on December 9, 2025. Intense fighting is taking place on Tuesday in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with the M23 group, supported by the Rwandan army, continuing its rapid advance towards Uvira, a strategic Congolese city located near the border with neighboring Burundi and now under threat. The anti-government armed group and the Rwandan soldiers—estimated at 6,000 to 7,000 on Congolese soil according to UN experts—were reportedly only about fifteen kilometers north of the city, home to several hundred thousand inhabitants, as of Tuesday morning, according to security and military sources cited by AFP. (Photo by AFP)

A woman stands on a spiral staircase at a bookstore in Tianjin on December 9, 2025. (Photo by ADEK BERRY / AFP)

Passengers are driven on motorbike taxis along a road in Uvira on December 9, 2025. Intense fighting is taking place on Tuesday in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with the M23 group, supported by the Rwandan army, continuing its rapid advance towards Uvira, a strategic Congolese city located near the border with neighboring Burundi and now under threat. The anti-government armed group and the Rwandan soldiers—estimated at 6,000 to 7,000 on Congolese soil according to UN experts—were reportedly only about fifteen kilometers north of the city, home to several hundred thousand inhabitants, as of Tuesday morning, according to security and military sources cited by AFP. (Photo by AFP)

Vendors and customers crowd a market in Uvira on December 9, 2025. Intense fighting is taking place on Tuesday in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with the M23 group, supported by the Rwandan army, continuing its rapid advance towards Uvira, a strategic Congolese city located near the border with neighboring Burundi and now under threat. The anti-government armed group and the Rwandan soldiers—estimated at 6,000 to 7,000 on Congolese soil according to UN experts—were reportedly only about fifteen kilometers north of the city, home to several hundred thousand inhabitants, as of Tuesday morning, according to security and military sources cited by AFP. (Photo by AFP)