KATIMA MULILO, 30 January 2025 - Simataa Mubonda (left) the chairperson of the Bukalo Village Council pictured earlier this year during the official handover of school mattresses to a school where he also serves as school board chairperson (Photo by: Michael Mutonga Liswaniso) NAMPA

OUTJO, 01 December 2025 - Kunene Region Governor, Vipuakuje Muharukua (Photo by: Dalene Kooper) NAMPA

OTJIWARONGO, 01 December 2025 - A section of community members at the 2025 commemoration of World Aids Day on Monday at Otjiwarongo in the Otjozondjupa. (Photo by: Mulisa Simiyasa) NAMPA

OTJIWARONGO, 01 December 2025 - Minister of Health and Social Services, Dr Esperance Luvindao (L) launched the new guidelines for handling HIV/Aids and mother to child transmission documents at the 2025 commemoration of World Aids Day on Monday. (Photo by: Mulisa Simiyasa) NAMPA

Margaryta Shabanova, the wife of OSCE employee Dmytro Shabanov who is now serving a 13-year prison sentence in Russia for "high treason", poses for a picture as she meets with AFP journalists for an interview in Vienna, Austria on December 2, 2025. Working for the international organisation OSCE, Dmytro Shabanov, Maksym Petrov and Vadym Golda were arrested in Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine on April 15, 2022, shortly after Moscow launched its invasion. Since then they have received lengthy prison sentences, their families dispairing for them. "The waiting, the not knowing, the endless hope turns into silent despair," Margaryta Shabanova, Shabanov's wife, told AFP. "No couple should have to endure such suffering." (Photo by JOE KLAMAR / AFP)

Margaryta Shabanova, the wife of OSCE employee Dmytro Shabanov who is now serving a 13-year prison sentence in Russia for "high treason", poses for a picture as she meets with AFP journalists for an interview in Vienna, Austria on December 2, 2025. Working for the international organisation OSCE, Dmytro Shabanov, Maksym Petrov and Vadym Golda were arrested in Russian-occupied territories in Ukraine on April 15, 2022, shortly after Moscow launched its invasion. Since then they have received lengthy prison sentences, their families dispairing for them. "The waiting, the not knowing, the endless hope turns into silent despair," Margaryta Shabanova, Shabanov's wife, told AFP. "No couple should have to endure such suffering." (Photo by JOE KLAMAR / AFP)

Beech trees are pictured in a forest near Annarode on November 14, 2025. Looking at a pile of freshly cut beechwood, forest manager Johannes Brodowski wonders if he is looking at the future of Germany's chemicals industry. Finnish materials group UPM unveiled a refinery in the east German state of Saxony-Anhalt in the summer, taking a big risk on a 1.3 billion euro project ($1.5 billion) at a difficult time for the German chemicals sector. (Photo by JENS SCHLUETER / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY

A harvesting machine for trees stands in a forest near Annarode on November 14, 2025. Looking at a pile of freshly cut beechwood, forest manager Johannes Brodowski wonders if he is looking at the future of Germany's chemicals industry. Finnish materials group UPM unveiled a refinery in the east German state of Saxony-Anhalt in the summer, taking a big risk on a 1.3 billion euro project ($1.5 billion) at a difficult time for the German chemicals sector. (Photo by JENS SCHLUETER / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY