OPUWO, 28 May 2026- Director-General of the National Planning Commission Dr Kaire Mbuende addressing the Genocide Remembrance Day commemoration at Opuwo in the Kunene Region. (Photo: Kaviveterue Virere) NAMPA

OPUWO, 28 May 2026- Director-General of the National Planning Commission Dr Kaire Mbuende, Kunene Governor Vipuakuje Muharukua, and Minister of Industries, Mines and Energy Modestus Amutse during the Genocide Remembrance Day in Opuwo, Kunene Region. (Photo: Kaviveterue Virere) NAMPA

SWAKOPMUND, 28 May 2026 - Chiefs of the Zeraeua and !Oe-ǂGan Traditional Authorities Ombara Manase Christian Zeraeua and Gaob Immanuel ǂNu-axa ǃGâseb (l), Chairperson of the Genocide Committee in Erongo Uahimisa Kaapehi (m) and other political and traditional leaders kneel at the entrance of the Swakopmund Memorial Park to seek for permission from the ancestors before entering the cemetery, during the Ovaherero and Nama Genocide. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

SWAKOPMUND, 28 May 2026 - Gaob Immanuel ǂNu-axa ǃGâseb of the !Oe-ǂGan Traditional Authority, Erongo Governor Natalia |Goagoses, Ombara Manase Christian Zeraeua of the Zeraeua Traditional Authority and Former Member of Parliament (MP) Usutuaije Maamberua paying their respects to the victims of the 1904-1908 Ovaherero and Nama Genocide at the Swakopmund Memorial Park, during the Genocide Remembrance Day. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

SWAKOPMUND, 28 MAY 2026 - Chiefs of the Zeraeua and !Oe-ǂGan Traditional Authorities Ombara Manase Christian Zeraeua and Gaob Immanuel ǂNu-axa ǃGâseb laying a wreath on the Ovaherero and Nama Genocide Monument at the Swakopmund Memorial Park, in remembrance of the 1904-1908 Genocide. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

OPUWO, 28 May 2026 - Senior Council Uahuna Tjiposa of the Otjikaoko Traditional Authority speaking at the Genocide Remembrance Day commemoration held at Opuwo in the Kunene Region on Thursday. (Photo: Contributed)

KATIMA MULILO, 27 May 2026 – Kabbe North Constituency Councilor and Chairperson of the Zambezi Regional Council Management Committee, Bernard Sisamu, speaking on behalf of the Zambezi Governor, Dorothy Kabula -Simushi at the belated World Malaria Day commemoration held at the Mukwahepo Sports Field in the Diary Compound of the Katima Mulilo Urban Constituency. (Photo: Contributed)

OPUWO, 27 May 2026 - Descendant of genocide victims, Mike Kavekotora and Stein Katupa pictured during a Government Information Centre engagement in Opuwo on Wednesday, ahead of Genocide Remembrance Day. (Photo: Contributed)

People shelter from the sun under a bridge on the banks of the River Garonne in Toulouse, southwestern France, on May 28, 2026 as a heatwave hits France. Western Europe faced another day of record-breaking temperatures as a heatwave pushed the mercury well above normal levels for May. A so-called "heat dome" of warm air from northern Africa trapped under a high-pressure system over western Europe is behind the sort of heat not usually seen until high summer. (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP)

This photograph shows a water drips from a public water fountain in Toulouse, southwestern France, on May 28, 2026 as a heatwave hits France. Western Europe faced another day of record-breaking temperatures as a heatwave pushed the mercury well above normal levels for May. A so-called "heat dome" of warm air from northern Africa trapped under a high-pressure system over western Europe is behind the sort of heat not usually seen until high summer. (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP)

Women sit on the banks of the River Garonne in Toulouse, southwestern France, on May 28, 2026 as a heatwave hits France. Western Europe faced another day of record-breaking temperatures as a heatwave pushed the mercury well above normal levels for May. A so-called "heat dome" of warm air from northern Africa trapped under a high-pressure system over western Europe is behind the sort of heat not usually seen until high summer. (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP)

Lars Klingbeil, German Finance Minister and Vice Chancellor (R) and Spain's Finance Minister Carlos Cuerpo react while lit by sunlight during a meeting with the Finance Ministers of France, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland at the Recreation Center of the German central bank (Deutsche Bundesbank) in Berlin on May 28, 2026. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)

Italy's Jannik Sinner acknowledges the crowd as he reacts to his men's singles match defeat to Argentina's Juan Manuel Cerundolo on day 5 of the French Open tennis tournament on Court Philippe-Chatrier at the Roland-Garros Complex in Paris on May 28, 2026. (Photo by Alain JOCARD / AFP)

Argentina's Juan Manuel Cerundolo celebrates his victory against Italy's Jannik Sinner at the end of their men's singles match on day 5 of the French Open tennis tournament on Court Philippe-Chatrier at the Roland-Garros Complex in Paris on May 28, 2026. (Photo by Alain JOCARD / AFP)

German Finance Minister and Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil (R) welcomes France's Economy, Finances and Industry Minister Roland Lescure prior a meeting with the finance ministers of France, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Spain at the Recreation Center of the German central bank (Deutsche Bundesbank) in Berlin on May 28, 2026. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)

Argentina's Juan Manuel Cerundolo celebrates his victory against Italy's Jannik Sinner at the end of their men's singles match on day 5 of the French Open tennis tournament on Court Philippe-Chatrier at the Roland-Garros Complex in Paris on May 28, 2026. (Photo by Alain JOCARD / AFP)