SWAKOPMUND, 15 July 2026 - Communications professional and author Dr Omoniyi Ibietan moderating a special APRA Panel Discussion, an opening event for the Effective Communicators Conference taking place in Swakopmund. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

SWAKOPMUND, 15 July 2026 - A special APRA Panel Discussion including Director of Commercial for Zambia’s Zaffico Pic Irene Lungu, Vice President of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations Professor Emmanuel Dandaura and PetroFund Head of Communications and Stakeholder Engagement Shoki Kandjimi, with moderator Communications professional and author Dr Omoniyi Ibietan. The discussion was an opening event for the Effective Communicators Conference taking place in Swakopmund. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 13 July 2026 - The Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia's (CRAN) newly appointed Manager for Economics and Market Development, Bridget Ellen Dundee. (Photo: Contributed) NAMPA

SICHUAN, 08 July 2026 - Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Land Reform, Inge Zaamwani. (Photo: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

OSHITAYI, 08 July 2026 - Ondangwa Urban Constituency Councillor Leonard Negonga address learners during the Ondangwa Urban Annual Constituency Culture Festival 2026 on Wednesday. (Photo: Ester Hakaala) NAMPA

BEIJING, 09 July 2026 - Director of Sinomine Group and Chief Executive Officer of Sinomine Tsumeb Smelter, Logan Lou Yonggang. (Photo: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

GABORONE, 06 July 2026 - Southern African officials will meet in Johannesburg from 15 to 17 July to advance public spending efficiency through cost-benefit analysis. (Photo: Contributed) NAMPA.

NEW YORK, 07 July 2026 - Diene Keita, Executive Director of UNFPA. (Photo: Contributed) NAMPA.

This photograph shows dried out leaves of a bush with the Notre-Dame Cathedral in the background amid a heatwave in central Paris on July 14, 2026. The Paris region, and large parts of the rest of France, is currently experiencing the third heatwave since May 2026, increasing the risk of fires. The three heatwaves have seen temperature records broken in several countries across Europe and have caused thousands of excess deaths, according to estimates in Belgium, Britain, France and Spain. (Photo by Martin LELIEVRE / AFP)

Visitors attempt to shade from the sun with a scarf as they queue to enter the Notre-Dame Cathedral (unseen) amid a heatwave in central Paris on July 14, 2026. The Paris region, and large parts of the rest of France, is currently experiencing the third heatwave since May 2026, increasing the risk of fires. The three heatwaves have seen temperature records broken in several countries across Europe and have caused thousands of excess deaths, according to estimates in Belgium, Britain, France and Spain. (Photo by Martin LELIEVRE / AFP)

This photograph shows a police motorcade arriving to the courthouse before a hearing of Jerome Barella, suspected of the killing of 11-year-old Lyhanna, in Agen on July 15, 2026. The death and rape of Lyhanna, an 11-year-old middle school student who went missing in late May before being found dead on June 4 in the Gers, has stirred a wave of anger and emotion across the country, with an inspection mission concluding there were failures in the justice system. Barella, a 41-year-old father of a school friend of the victim, had twice before been formally accused of raping a child, but investigations had been dropped or had stalled. (Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP)

This photograph shows a police motorcade arriving to the courthouse before a hearing of Jerome Barella, suspected of the killing of 11-year-old Lyhanna, in Agen on July 15, 2026. The death and rape of Lyhanna, an 11-year-old middle school student who went missing in late May before being found dead on June 4 in the Gers, has stirred a wave of anger and emotion across the country, with an inspection mission concluding there were failures in the justice system. Barella, a 41-year-old father of a school friend of the victim, had twice before been formally accused of raping a child, but investigations had been dropped or had stalled. (Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP)

This photograph shows a police motorcade arriving to the courthouse before a hearing of Jerome Barella, suspected of the killing of 11-year-old Lyhanna, in Agen on July 15, 2026. The death and rape of Lyhanna, an 11-year-old middle school student who went missing in late May before being found dead on June 4 in the Gers, has stirred a wave of anger and emotion across the country, with an inspection mission concluding there were failures in the justice system. Barella, a 41-year-old father of a school friend of the victim, had twice before been formally accused of raping a child, but investigations had been dropped or had stalled. (Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP)

This photograph shows a police motorcade arriving to the courthouse before a hearing of Jerome Barella, suspected of the killing of 11-year-old Lyhanna, in Agen on July 15, 2026. The death and rape of Lyhanna, an 11-year-old middle school student who went missing in late May before being found dead on June 4 in the Gers, has stirred a wave of anger and emotion across the country, with an inspection mission concluding there were failures in the justice system. Barella, a 41-year-old father of a school friend of the victim, had twice before been formally accused of raping a child, but investigations had been dropped or had stalled. (Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP)

This photograph shows a police motorcade arriving to the courthouse before a hearing of Jerome Barella, suspected of the killing of 11-year-old Lyhanna, in Agen on July 15, 2026. The death and rape of Lyhanna, an 11-year-old middle school student who went missing in late May before being found dead on June 4 in the Gers, has stirred a wave of anger and emotion across the country, with an inspection mission concluding there were failures in the justice system. Barella, a 41-year-old father of a school friend of the victim, had twice before been formally accused of raping a child, but investigations had been dropped or had stalled. (Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP)

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi answers a question during the joint meeting of the committees of both houses on fundamental national policies at the National Diet in Tokyo on July 15, 2026. (Photo by Yuichi YAMAZAKI / AFP)