WINDHOEK, 30 October 2026 – Warrant Officer Julia Ndeulyatele and her colleagues who formed part of the protection team for the late First Lady Penehupifo Pohamba. (Photo: Andreas Thomas) NAMPA

SHARUKWE, 30 October 2026 - The Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism on Thursday held a Traditional Seed Fair at the Sharukwe Community Seed Bank in Kavango West. (Photo: Lylie Joel) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 30 October 2026 - The Bank of Namibia headquarters in Windhoek. (Photo: Contributed)

KALKRAND, 30 October 2026 - The inaugural Kalkrand Marketing Expo officially started on Thursday. (Photo: Joe-Chintha Garises)

SHARUKWE, 30 October 2026 - The Sharukwe Community Seed Bank at Sharukwe village in Kavango West. (Photo: Lylie Joel) NAMPA

NANKUTWE, 28 October 2026 - The Namibian Defence Force (NDF) has donated sanitary pads and toiletries to learners at Nankutwe Combined School in the Kabbe South Constituency of the Zambezi Region. Pictured here is Colonel Glenda Lukubwe Simasiku, the Senior Staff Officer heading the Gender Division at MODVA, who spoke at the ceremony on behalf of the NDF Women’s Network. (Photo: Michael Mutonga Liswaniso) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 29 October 2026 - Namibia Breweries Limited (NBL) will invest approximately N$13 million over five years in a project aimed at improving water security in the Swakop River Basin, following the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement with WWF Namibia and Global Water Challenge (GWC) on Thursday. (Photo: Contributed)

OTJIWARONGO, 29 October 2026 - Okakarara Health Directorate Practitioner Olivia Mbabi speaks at an information-sharing session in Otjiwarongo on Thursday. (Photo: Mulisa Simiyasa) NAMPA

(261031) -- GUANGYUAN, Oct. 31, 2026 (Xinhua) -- An aerial drone photo taken on Oct. 30, 2026 shows the autumn scenery at the Tangjiahe National Nature Reserve in Qingchuan County of Guangyuan City, southwest China's Sichuan Province. (Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing)

(261031) -- GUANGYUAN, Oct. 31, 2026 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Oct. 31, 2026 shows people enjoying the autumn scenery at the Tangjiahe National Nature Reserve in Qingchuan County of Guangyuan City, southwest China's Sichuan Province. (Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing)

(261031) -- GUANGYUAN, Oct. 31, 2026 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Oct. 30, 2026 shows the autumn scenery at the Tangjiahe National Nature Reserve in Qingchuan County of Guangyuan City, southwest China's Sichuan Province. (Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing)

(261031) -- GUANGYUAN, Oct. 31, 2026 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Oct. 31, 2026 shows the autumn scenery at the Tangjiahe National Nature Reserve in Qingchuan County of Guangyuan City, southwest China's Sichuan Province. (Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing)

(261031) -- GUANGYUAN, Oct. 31, 2026 (Xinhua) -- An aerial drone photo taken on Oct. 30, 2026 shows the autumn scenery at the Tangjiahe National Nature Reserve in Qingchuan County of Guangyuan City, southwest China's Sichuan Province. (Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing)

(261031) -- GUANGYUAN, Oct. 31, 2026 (Xinhua) -- An aerial drone photo taken on Oct. 30, 2026 shows the autumn scenery at the Tangjiahe National Nature Reserve in Qingchuan County of Guangyuan City, southwest China's Sichuan Province. (Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing)

(261031) -- GUANGYUAN, Oct. 31, 2026 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Oct. 31, 2026 shows the autumn scenery at the Tangjiahe National Nature Reserve in Qingchuan County of Guangyuan City, southwest China's Sichuan Province. (Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing)

(261031) -- YEREVAN, Oct. 31, 2026 (Xinhua) -- Representatives attend the closing plenary for the 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP17) in Yerevan, Armenia, Oct. 30, 2026. Over 100 countries reached agreements at the COP17 here, after marathon negotiations spanning roughly 12 hours from Friday night through Saturday morning. The closing plenary marked a breakthrough in efforts to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030, even as divisions over biodiversity finance, harmful subsidies and scientific evidence persisted. Delegates burst into applause when COP17 President Hambardzum Matevosyan, Armenia's environment minister, banged the gavel to adopt key decisions on the first global biodiversity progress review and resource mobilization. The outcome renews momentum for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, which was adopted in 2022 with 23 targets to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030. (Xinhua/Chen Junfeng)