WINDHOEK, 09 November 2026 - The Electoral Commission of Namibia (ECN), with International IDEA and India's IIIDEM, launched a three-day training workshop on Risk Management and Electoral Resilience in Windhoek from 9–11 November 2026, uniting ECN leaders and global election experts to share best practices for managing challenges. (Photo: Contributed) NAMPA

SWAKOPMUND, 09 November 2026 - Erongo Regional Council Chairperson Lazarus Kanelombe, ERC Chairperson Sem Ntelamo and other constituency Councillors photographed with mining company representatives during the council’s first ever engagement with the complies. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

WALVIS BAY, Erongo Governor Natalia /Goagoses, Walvis Bay Mayor Johannes Shimbilinga and other councillors of the Walvis Bay Municipality photographed after the Mayoral Fundraising Gala Dinner after a record-breaking pledge of N$21,2 million raised at the gala. (Photo: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 06 November 2026 - Traditional Authorities from genocide-affected communities and members of the Joint Declaration Committee gather in Windhoek on Friday, 06 November 2026, to deliberate on the ongoing reparations negotiations with Germany. (Photo by: Uakutura Kambaekua) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 06 November 2026 - Traditional Authorities from genocide-affected communities and members of the Joint Declaration Committee gather in Windhoek on Friday, 06 November 2026, to deliberate on the ongoing reparations negotiations with Germany. (Photo by: Uakutura Kambaekua) NAMPA

SWAKOPMUND, 06 November 2026 - Residents of the Erongo region attended President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah’s town hall community meeting which took place at Swakopmund. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

WALVIS BAY, 06 November 2026 - Agriculture, Water,Fisheries and Land Reform, Erongo Governor Natalia /Goagoses and Castro Bros general manager Ricky de Castro during the christening of the Castro Kumata fishing vessel, through a partnership between Namibian owned Beki Kumata and Castro Bros fishing. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

GOBABIS, 05 November 2026 - A miniature mobile vocational training unit, featuring a welding and metal fabrication section and a theory classroom, designed and produced by students at the Gobabis Vocational Training Centre as a demonstration of their practical skills and creativity. (Photo: Contributed)) NAMPA

French- German skipper Isabelle Joschke talks to the press at the courthouse where the trial of French skipper Kevin Escoffier on charges of sexual assault opens in Lorient, western France, on November 9, 2026. (Photo by Sebastien Salom-Gomis / AFP)

French- German skipper Isabelle Joschke talks to the press at the courthouse where the trial of French skipper Kevin Escoffier on charges of sexual assault opens in Lorient, western France, on November 9, 2026. (Photo by Sebastien Salom-Gomis / AFP)

President of Bavarian parliament Ilse Aigner speaks at the 20th anniversary celebration of the "Ohel Jakob" synagogue in Munich, southern Germany, on November 9, 2026. (Photo by Matthias Schrader / POOL / AFP)

Blue pouches for affidavit ballots sit in a bin at the Hinds County Election Operations Center in Jackson, Mississippi, on November 9, 2026, as the US Senate race between Democrat Scott Colom and Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith remains too close to call. Mississippi residents faced a "nerve-wracking" wait to see whether the southern state elects its first Black senator in more than a century as vote-counting has dragged on after this past week's US midterms. Voters who spoke to AFP in the state capital Jackson over the weekend anticipated that history could be in the making in the close race between Colom, an African-American man, and Republican incumbent Hyde-Smith, a white woman. (Photo by Ricardo ARDUENGO / AFP)

An election observer writes on a clipboard at the Hinds County Election Operations Center in Jackson, Mississippi, on November 9, 2026, as officials continue processing ballots from the November 3 midterms and the US Senate race between Democrat Scott Colom and Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith remains too close to call. Mississippi residents faced a "nerve-wracking" wait to see whether the southern state elects its first Black senator in more than a century as vote-counting has dragged on after this past week's US midterms. Voters who spoke to AFP in the state capital Jackson over the weekend anticipated that history could be in the making in the close race between Colom, an African-American man, and Republican incumbent Hyde-Smith, a white woman. (Photo by Ricardo ARDUENGO / AFP)

Hinds County District 3 Election Commissioner Jermal Clark works at a computer as election observers stand behind him at the Hinds County Election Operations Center in Jackson, Mississippi, on November 9, 2026, with the US Senate race between Democrat Scott Colom and Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith still too close to call. Mississippi residents faced a "nerve-wracking" wait to see whether the southern state elects its first Black senator in more than a century as vote-counting has dragged on after this past week's US midterms. Voters who spoke to AFP in the state capital Jackson over the weekend anticipated that history could be in the making in the close race between Colom, an African-American man, and Republican incumbent Hyde-Smith, a white woman. (Photo by Ricardo ARDUENGO / AFP)

Election observers gather around a clipboard at the Hinds County Election Operations Center in Jackson, Mississippi, on November 9, 2026, as officials continue processing ballots from the November 3 midterms and the US Senate race between Democrat Scott Colom and Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith remains too close to call. Mississippi residents faced a "nerve-wracking" wait to see whether the southern state elects its first Black senator in more than a century as vote-counting has dragged on after this past week's US midterms. Voters who spoke to AFP in the state capital Jackson over the weekend anticipated that history could be in the making in the close race between Colom, an African-American man, and Republican incumbent Hyde-Smith, a white woman. (Photo by Ricardo ARDUENGO / AFP)

Hinds County District 3 Election Commissioner Jermal Clark holds a sheet of paper while working at a computer with election observers nearby at the Hinds County Election Operations Center in Jackson, Mississippi, on November 9, 2026, as the US Senate race between Democrat Scott Colom and Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith remains too close to call. Mississippi residents faced a "nerve-wracking" wait to see whether the southern state elects its first Black senator in more than a century as vote-counting has dragged on after this past week's US midterms. Voters who spoke to AFP in the state capital Jackson over the weekend anticipated that history could be in the making in the close race between Colom, an African-American man, and Republican incumbent Hyde-Smith, a white woman. (Photo by Ricardo ARDUENGO / AFP)