/KHOICHAS, 14 August 2026 - Namibia’s independence was a collective victory. The southern regions of Hardap and ||Karas were central to the struggle, anchored by local churches that risked everything to shelter PLAN fighters and educate the future leaders of our nation. (Photo by: Uakutura Kambaekua) NAMPA.

HOACHANAS, 12 August 2026 - Historian and liberation struggle icon Markus Kooper, in collaboration with the Hoachanas community, has established a community library to preserve the history of the southern region, including the Red Clan history and past freedom struggle events. (Photo by: Uakutura Kambaekua) NAMPA.

GIBEON, 13 August 2026 - The African Methodist Episcopal Private Community School (AMEPS) in Gibeon was a significant community-operated institution founded by the AME Church and local leaders, including Hendrik Witbooi, during the fight for freedom. It ceased operations and was integrated into the state school system in 2007. (Photo by: Uakutura Kambaekua) NAMPA.

/KHOICHAS, 14 August 2026 - Jacqueline Juliana Rukamba, a former principal at Khoichas Primary School in the Karas region, significantly contributed to Namibia's independence, particularly in education, during the 1970s and 1980s. (Photo by: Uakutura Kambaekua) NAMPA.

GIBEON, 13 August 2026 – The African Methodist Episcopal Private Community School (AMEPS) in Gibeon was a significant community-operated institution founded by the AME Church and local leaders, including Hendrik Witbooi, during the fight for freedom. It ceased operations and was integrated into the state school system in 2007. (Photo by: Uakutura Kambaekua) NAMPA.

GIBEON, 13 August 2026 – The African Methodist Episcopal Private Community School (AMEPS) in Gibeon was a significant community-operated institution founded by the AME Church and local leaders, including Hendrik Witbooi, during the fight for freedom. It ceased operations and was integrated into the state school system in 2007. (Photo by: Uakutura Kambaekua) NAMPA.

GIBEON, 13 August 2026 – Gaob Salomon Josephat Witbooi, former Namibian ambassador to Zambia, reflected on the southern region's contribution to Namibia's struggle for independence during a discussion with Nampa's team. (Photo by: Uakutura Kambaekua) NAMPA.

WINDHOEK, 15 August 2026 - South Africa’s Kelsey Jade van Schoor (in green) during the 2026 Pupkewitz Megabuild Tour de Windhoek. She was crowned the overall champion of the 2026 women’s category. (Photo by: Hesron Kapanga) NAMPA

Duane Davis watches as Brent Becker, a retired Las Vegas Metro Police Department homicide detective, testifies by video feed during his murder trial, related to the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur, at Clark County District Court at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, on August 17, 2026. The trial of the former gang leader accused of orchestrating the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur began on August 10, 30 years after one of America's most high-profile unresolved killings. The proceedings, expected to last a month, will likely not make clear who fired the shots that killed the California hip-hop legend on the night of September 7, 1996, while he was in Las Vegas to see a Mike Tyson boxing match. (Photo by Steve Marcus / POOL / AFP)

(FILES) French ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot addresses a press conference at the European Space Agency (ESA) in Cologne, western Germany on January 5, 2026. Adenot, who is currently staying on the International Space Station (ISS), will perform her first spacewalk on Tuesday, August 18, 2026, accompanied by American Anil Menon, a first for a French woman. (Photo by Pau BARRENA / AFP)

(FILES) ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot points to the French flag on her shoulder as she prepares to travel to the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Dragon spacecraft at Space Launch Complex 40 for the Crew-12 mission at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, on February 13, 2026. Adenot, who is currently staying on the International Space Station (ISS), will perform her first spacewalk on Tuesday, August 18, 2026, accompanied by American Anil Menon, a first for a French woman. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)

(FILES) French ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot addresses a press conference and plants a tree at the European Space Agency (ESA) in Cologne, western Germany on January 5, 2026. Adenot, who is currently staying on the International Space Station (ISS), will perform her first spacewalk on Tuesday, August 18, 2026, accompanied by American Anil Menon, a first for a French woman. (Photo by Pau BARRENA / AFP)

(FILES) ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot points to the French flag on her shoulder as she prepares to travel to the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Dragon spacecraft at Space Launch Complex 40 for the Crew-12 mission at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, on February 13, 2026. Adenot, who is currently staying on the International Space Station (ISS), will perform her first spacewalk on Tuesday, August 18, 2026, accompanied by American Anil Menon, a first for a French woman. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)

(FILES) Fishermen check their nets and small boats on the seashore in the port city of Bandar Abbas, in southern Iran on August 10, 2026. On his boat along the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian fisherman Mohammad-Amin mended a torn fishing net after a long day in waters that had sustained his livelihood for years but now carry debris of war and the threat of death. The 47-year-old only resumed his routine of waking before dawn, heading out to sea and returning hours later with the day's catch less than a month ago, after months of fighting between Iran and the United States in and around the strategic waterway eased. (Photo by Atta KENARE / AFP) /

(FILES) French cartoonist known by his pen name Luz, former contributor to the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, poses during a photo session in Paris on October 11, 2023. In the summer of 2025, cartoonist Luz spent the night at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, known as Beaubourg, among the ghosts of the artists who once inhabited the museum, now closed for renovation, and those that have haunted him since the attack that decimated Charlie Hebdo, his second family. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP)

(FILES) French cartoonist known by his pen name Luz, former contributor to the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, poses during a photo session in Paris on October 11, 2023. In the summer of 2025, cartoonist Luz spent the night at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, known as Beaubourg, among the ghosts of the artists who once inhabited the museum, now closed for renovation, and those that have haunted him since the attack that decimated Charlie Hebdo, his second family. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP)