GOCHAS, 20 January 2026 - Minister of Education, Sanet Steenkamp, officially opened the Namaqua Kalahari Children’s Hope Hostel at Gochas on Tuesday. The hostel was donated by the Spanish-based ‘Foundawtion’ organisation. (Photo: Contributed)

ONDANGWA, 20 JANUARY 2026 - The Ondangwa Town Council has expressed concern over the increasing vandalism of street and road regulatory signs within the town, warning that the acts pose safety risks to road users and place an unnecessary financial burden on the local authority. (Photo: Contributed)

WINDHOEK, 17 January 2026 - UNHCR country representative Kavita Belani (Photo: Andreas Thomas) NAMPA

EPUKIRO, 14 January 2026 - Epukiro Secondary School's staff celebrates the school's achievement in the Grade 12 NSSCAS results. (Photo: Contributed)

(FILES) This picture taken on August 24, 2020 shows Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe making a short speech to the media upon his arrival at the prime minister's office in Tokyo. The gunman charged with killing Abe faces a verdict on January 21, 2026, more than three years after the broad-daylight assassination shocked the world. (Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP)

(FILES) In this picture taken on July 24, 2019 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks on the podium during a ceremony marking one year before the start of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. The gunman charged with killing Abe faces a verdict on January 21, 2026, more than three years after the broad-daylight assassination shocked the world. (Photo by Behrouz MEHRI / AFP)

Chile's President-elect Jose Antonio Kast (R) greets Francisca Toledo as new Minister for the Environment during the presentation of his cabinet at the office of the president-elect, commonly nicknamed 'La Moneda Chica,' in Las Condes, Santiago, on January 20, 2026. Chile's right-wing president-elect Jose Antonio Kast on January 20 named two ex-lawyers of former dictator Augusto Pinochet to lead the ministries of defense and human rights when he takes office in March. (Photo by Alvaro NARANJO / AFP)

Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen (L) and Minister for Finance and Taxes Mute Bourup Egede hold a press conference in Nuuk, Greenland, on January 20, 2026. Greenland is at the centre of the geopolitical spotlight after US President Donald Trump's bid to seize the island. Trump has said that the United States needs Greenland, which would dramatically increase the US land mass, because of a threat of Russia or China seizing the island as climate change opens up Arctic water routes. (Photo by Mads Claus Rasmussen / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP) / Denmark OUT