SWAKOPMUND, 19 June 2026 - Minister of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sport, Arts and Culture Sanet Steenkamp addressing youth delegates gathered at the multipurpose centre in Swakopmund for the third National Youth Council of Namibia general assembly which will take place over the weekend and is anticipated to end in an election for the council’s new leadership. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

ACCRA, 18 June 2026 - President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah speaking at the high-level consultative conference in Accra, Ghana, on the United Nations Resolution on the Transatlantic Slave Trade on Thursday. (Photo: Contributed) NAMPA.

SWAKOPMUND, 18 June 2026 - Erongo Governor Natalia /Goagoses. (Photo contributed) NAMPA

OMATJETE, 16 June 2026 - Erongo Governor Natalia /Goagoses, during the launch of the Roads Authority’s mobile unit, Natis on Wheels. (Photo by: Chelva) NAMPA

OKAKARARA, 17 June 2026 - The Chief Executive Officer of Okakarara Town Council, Ernst Katjiku speaks on Wednesday evening about his exit from the council before end of this year. (Photo by: Mulisa Simiyasa) NAMPA

OKAKARARA, 17 June 2026 - The Chief Executive Officer of Okakarara Town Council, Ernst Katjiku speaks on Wednesday evening about his exit from the council before end of this year. (Photo by: Mulisa Simiyasa) NAMPA

SWAKOPMUND, 18 June 2026 - Education officials, school principals, teachers, learners, community leaders and other stakeholders of education attending the Erongo Region Education conference to assess challenges facing the sector. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 17 June 2026 - Prime Minister Elijah Ngurare pictured with Ovaherero Chief Professor Mutjinde Katjiua during a recent meeting in Windhoek. (Photo: Contributed) NAMPA.

21 June 2026, Berlin: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (2nd R) and German Bundestag President Julia Kloeckner (L) are pictured during a tour of the festivities marking the 2nd National Veterans Day. Germany is celebrating the 2nd National Veterans Day with a large ceremony around the Reichstag building. Photo: Carsten Koall/dpa

21 June 2026, Berlin: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (2nd R) and German Bundestag President Julia Kloeckner (L) are pictured during a tour of the festivities marking the 2nd National Veterans Day. Germany is celebrating the 2nd National Veterans Day with a large ceremony around the Reichstag building. Photo: Carsten Koall/dpa

21 June 2026, Berlin: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (2nd R) and German Bundestag President Julia Kloeckner (L) are pictured during a tour of the festivities marking the 2nd National Veterans Day. Germany is celebrating the 2nd National Veterans Day with a large ceremony around the Reichstag building. Photo: Carsten Koall/dpa

A woman walks under a mist sprayer installed by Paris City Hall during a heatwave on June 21, 2026. Who will dare to dance in the blazing sun? The Fete de la Musique (France's national music festival) is set to be severely disrupted on June 21, 2026, by the heatwave, particularly in the 35 departments under a red alert – a record number – where alcohol consumption will be banned. The authorities have also urged caution when swimming, following the deaths of four teenagers who drowned on June 20, 2026, in Besancon, the Dordogne and Dunkirk. (Photo by Guillaume BAPTISTE / AFP)

Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif (C) speaks next to US Vice President JD Vance (L) and Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani prior to a quadrilateral meeting between the United States, Iran, Pakistan and Qatar at the Burgenstock luxury hotel complex overlooking Lake Lucerne, Switzerland, on June 21, 2026, as part of high-level talks aimed at advancing a deal to end the Middle East conflict. A new round of negotiations over the Middle East war was set to kick off on June 21, 2026 with Iranian negotiators arriving in the Swiss host city hours ahead of US Vice President JD Vance, even as Tehran said it was closing the Strait of Hormuz again over Israeli attacks in Lebanon. (Photo by Nathan Howard / POOL / AFP)

US Vice President JD Vance (L) speaks next to Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif (C) and Qatar's Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani at the start of a quadrilateral meeting between the United States, Iran, Pakistan and Qatar at the Burgenstock luxury hotel complex overlooking Lake Lucerne, Switzerland, on June 21, 2026, as part of high-level talks aimed at advancing a deal to end the Middle East conflict. A new round of negotiations over the Middle East war was set to kick off on June 21, 2026 with Iranian negotiators arriving in the Swiss host city hours ahead of US Vice President JD Vance, even as Tehran said it was closing the Strait of Hormuz again over Israeli attacks in Lebanon. (Photo by Fabrice Coffrini / POOL / AFP)

The car transporting Colombia's presidential candidate for the Defensores de la Patria movement, Abelardo de la Espriella, leaves a polling station during the presidential election runoff in Barranquilla, Colombia, on June 21, 2026. Colombians head to the polls to pick a new president between a hard-right White House-backed lawyer and a leftist senator that will decide the fate of the country's stumbling peace process and strained ties with Washington. (Photo by Jaime SALDARRIAGA / AFP)

Colombia's presidential candidate for the Defensores de la Patria movement, Abelardo de la Espriella, gestures as he leaves a polling station next to his wife Ana Lucia Pineda, during the presidential election runoff in Barranquilla, Colombia, on June 21, 2026. Colombians head to the polls to pick a new president between a hard-right White House-backed lawyer and a leftist senator that will decide the fate of the country's stumbling peace process and strained ties with Washington. (Photo by Jaime SALDARRIAGA / AFP)