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October 2026 | Namibia GBV Tracker
1 indexed fatal people · 0 indexed serious non-fatal events. Reviewed 11 October 2026.
October is in progress; this ledger remains open to new evidence and corrections. This is an incomplete, nonprobability public-source register. It cannot estimate national incidence, prevalence or perpetrator distributions and must not be used to rank countries.
Counting note: fatal figures count people; serious non-fatal figures count distinct events. These are different units and should not be added together. See Methods & Data Dictionary →
Fatal people
| Stable ID · dates, evidence and sources | Person or safe identifier | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| NA-GBV-2026-002 | ǁKharas adult woman · identity withheld | Fatal person |
Serious non-fatal events
No qualifying date-assigned record is indexed in this category. This is not evidence that no violence occurred.
Month and cumulative reconciliation
October: 1 fatal people / 0 non-fatal events. Cumulative from August through this month: 2 fatal people / 13 non-fatal events.
Fatal people and non-fatal events use different units. Linked survivors in one episode remain one non-fatal event. Full occurrence/discovery dates, provisional classifications, gender fields, justice status and source URLs are preserved in each linked history.
Research records outside totals
Open undated, unclassified and out-of-coverage leads. These are not additional counted cases for this month.
11 October correction note
NA-GBV-2026-002: October fatal person added; day disputed, court procedural update included. NA-LEAD-2026-006 remains uncounted. Duplicate lead ID corrected: the later child-survivor record previously also labelled NA-LEAD-2026-004 is now NA-LEAD-2026-007; the original older-case record retains 004. No count change from that correction.
Country correction history · Public change log
October reports under reconciliation — 17 October
2 October, Okahandja: Police reported an alleged rape of a 21-year-old woman. 3 October, Outjo: Police reported an alleged rape of a 23-year-old woman involving three suspects. 10 October, Okahandja: A suspect was arrested after an alleged attempted rape involving a girl. These are allegations, not convictions. The reported 2025 child killing linked to the same suspect is not an October 2026 death.
Counting status: Three distinct October candidate events, pending final case-register and source reconciliation. Existing indexed figures are unchanged until that check is complete. Sources for checking: The Namibian police reporting, 5 and 14 October 2026.
