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)

KATIMA MULILO, 18 December 2025 - Zambezi Region Governor, Dorothy Kabula is urging residents to guard against gender-based violence and human trafficking this festive season. (Photo: Contributed)

MAPOREZA, 19 December 2025 - The Kavango West Regional Directorate of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sports, Arts and Culture officially handing over construction sites to the Namibia Training Authority (NTA) at Maporeza village in the Kavango West Region on Friday. (Photo by: Lylie Joel) NAMPA

(251226) -- HOMS, Dec. 26, 2025 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Dec. 26, 2025 shows a view inside a mosque after an explosion in the Wadi al-Dhahab neighborhood of Homs, central Syria. At least eight people were killed and 21 others wounded after an explosion struck a mosque in the Wadi al-Dhahab neighborhood of the central Syrian city of Homs during Friday prayers, Syrian health authorities said. (Str/Xinhua)

(251226) -- HOMS, Dec. 26, 2025 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Dec. 26, 2025 shows a view inside a mosque after an explosion in the Wadi al-Dhahab neighborhood of Homs, central Syria. At least eight people were killed and 21 others wounded after an explosion struck a mosque in the Wadi al-Dhahab neighborhood of the central Syrian city of Homs during Friday prayers, Syrian health authorities said. (Str/Xinhua)

(251226) -- DHAKA, Dec. 26, 2025 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Dec. 26, 2025 shows a damaged ferry after a collision in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh. At least four people died, and a dozen were injured in a head-on collision between two passenger ferries amid dense fog on the Meghna River in Bangladesh's Chandpur district, about 115 km southeast of the capital Dhaka, early Friday. TO GO WITH "4 dead as ferries collide amid dense fog on Bangladeshi river" (Photo by Habibur Rahman/Xinhua)

(251226) -- HUAPING, Dec. 26, 2025 (Xinhua) -- Two students have meals outdoors at Huaping Senior High School for Girls in Huaping County, Lijiang City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Dec. 23, 2025. Each morning at Huaping High School for Girls in Yunnan Province, the schoolyard rings with a bold pledge, "I was born to be a mountain not a creek, rising to the high peaks with the valleys at my feet." Behind that voice stands Zhang Guimei, the school's founder and principal. In her sixties and struggling with illness, she still devotes more than 18 hours a day to her students. Megaphone in hand, she has become a living symbol of how education can open doors that poverty once closed. Founded in 2008, Huaping High School for Girls is the country's first senior high school to offer free education for girls. The school in mountainous Yunnan Province has created a miracle, with more than 2,000 graduates -- most of whom come from low-income rural families -- admitted to colleges and universities. Many of them later became teachers, doctors and civil servants, fulfilling their aspirations. (Xinhua/Wang Guansen)