SWAKOPMUND, 11 July 2025 - Namibia emerged as the standout performer in the 2026 African country rankings, surging from 15th to 3rd place, largely driven by a favorable tax environment and improvements in other key areas. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA.

SWAKOPMUND, 11 June 2026 -Speaker of the National Assembly Saara Kuugongelwa (far right), Erongo Governor Natalia /Goagoses (far left) photographed with ODEC management and staff and other political leaders during the unveiling of the Open Doors Education Centre (ODEC) Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Programme in Swakopmund on Thursday. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 11 JUNE 2026 - Namibia has released its Impact Assessment Report on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and the Accelerated Industrial Development for Africa (AIDA) in Windhoek on Thursday, an event commissioned by the Executive Director and Director General at the National Planning Commission, along with Jane Matsubara, JICA advisor; Mustafa Sakr, the Head, Trade and Market Unit at AUDA; and Akihiro Hoshino, Japan International Agency Resident Representative. (Photo by: Uakutura Kambaekua) NAMPA.

WINDHOEK, 11 JUNE 2026 - Namibia has released its Impact Assessment Report on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and the Accelerated Industrial Development for Africa (AIDA) in Windhoek on Thursday, an event commissioned by the Executive Director and Director General at the National Planning Commission, along with Jane Matsubara, JICA advisor; Mustafa Sakr, the Head, Trade and Market Unit at AUDA; and Akihiro Hoshino, Japan International Agency Resident Representative. (Photo by: Uakutura Kambaekua) NAMPA.

WINDHOEK, 11 JUN (NAMPA) The National Planning Commission has launched its Strategic Plan for 2025/26 – 2029/30. The commission's executive director, I-Ben Nashandi (centre), led the launch alongside key strategic stakeholders in Windhoek on Thursday. (Photo by: Uakutura Kambaekua) NAMPA.

WINDHOEK, 11 JUN (NAMPA) The National Planning Commission has launched its Strategic Plan for 2025/26 – 2029/30. The commission's executive director, I-Ben Nashandi (second from left), led the launch alongside key strategic stakeholders in Windhoek on Thursday. (Photo by: Uakutura Kambaekua) NAMPA.

WINDHOEK, 11 June 2026 - Former first lady, Monica Geingos. (Photo by: Molly Weyulu) NAMPA

WALVIS BAY, 10 June 2026 - Delegates attending the Association of Local Authorities in Namibia (ALAN) Elective Congress in Walvis Bay. The three-day congress will conclude with a the election of a new leadership to guide the association for the next term. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

An anti-fascist demonstrators holds a sign reading "Once colonised now rejected" against remigration as they march against a rally organised by right-wing groups advocating "remigration", in Rome on June 13, 2026. (Photo by Filippo MONTEFORTE / AFP)

Aerial view of children playing football at the San Ysidro crossing port on the Mexican side of the border in Tijuana, on June 13, 2026. (Photo by Guillermo Arias / AFP)

Street vendors sell Mexican jerseys and flags at the San Ysidro crossing port on the Mexican side of the border in Tijuana on June 13, 2026. (Photo by Guillermo Arias / AFP)

Street vendors sell Mexican jerseys to people to people crossing to the United States at the San Ysidro border crossing on the Mexican side of the border in Tijuana on June 13, 2026. (Photo by Guillermo Arias / AFP)

French centre-left party Place publique leader and presidential candidate Raphael Glucksmann (L) poses for a photograph with a supporter as he arrives to address a political rally ahead of the April 2027 French presidential election in Aubervilliers, a northern suburb of Paris, on June 13, 2026. (Photo by Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP)

(From L) Place Publique MEP Aurore Lalucq, French green party Les Ecologists senator Yannick Jadot, and the president of the French administrativ region Occitanie and Socialist party member Carole Delga, applaud during a political rally of French centre-left party Place publique ahead of the April 2027 French presidential election in Aubervilliers, a northern suburb of Paris, on June 13, 2026. (Photo by Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP)

EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / Members of specialized response teams enter the morgue of the Evangelical Medical Center of Nyankunde (CME) with the body of a person who died from Ebola virus disease to allow relatives to pay their last respects after washing, disinfection and safe body-wrapping procedures in Bunia, Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of Congo, on June 13, 2026. (Photo by Jospin Mwisha / AFP)

EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / Members of specialized response teams carry to the morgue of the Evangelical Medical Center of Nyankunde (CME) the body of a person who died from Ebola virus disease to allow relatives to pay their last respects after washing, disinfection and safe body-wrapping procedures in Bunia, Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of Congo, on June 13, 2026. (Photo by Jospin Mwisha / AFP)