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

SWAKOPMUND, 17 June 2026 - Erongo Governor Natalia /Goagoses delivering her Sate of the Region Address. She is dressed in the uniform of the National Youth Service, in solidarity with the Namibian youth and their plight in fighting against unemployment. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

SWAKOPMUND, 16 June 2026 - Erongo Governor Natalia ǀGoagoses during her State of the Region Address (SORA) stated that the C35 Swakopmund/Henties Bay/Uis Main Road, costing N.dollars 1.03 billion, was 86 per cent complete with 16 kilometres remaining. (Photo by: Josephina Simeon) NAMPA

SWAKOPMUND, 16 June 2026 - Erongo Governor Natalia ǀGoagoses during her State of the Region Address (SORA) stated that the C35 Swakopmund/Henties Bay/Uis Main Road, costing N.dollars 1.03 billion, was 86 per cent complete with 16 kilometres remaining. (Photo by: Josephina Simeon) NAMPA

UIS, 16 June 2026 - Uis in the Erongo Region, was upgraded from settlement to town status, becoming the region’s eighth local authority, ǀGoagoses said in her second State of the Region Address delivered in Swakopmund, with N.dollars 1 million allocated for an Infrastructure Master Plan and N.dollars 8.5 million for an ongoing bulk water pipeline. (Photo by: Josephina Simeon) NAMPA

SWAKOPMUND, 17 June 2026 - In the Picture: Rössing Uranium is Johan Coetzee. Mining companies operating in the Erongo Region invested well over N.dollars 160 million in community development, education, healthcare and skills training over the past financial year, with Rössing Uranium alone accounting for N.dollars 73.5 million, Erongo Governor Natalia ǀGoagoses said on Wednesday. (Phot contributed) NAMPA

SWAKOPMUND, 17 June 2026 - Mining companies operating in the Erongo Region invested well over N.dollars 160 million in community development, education, healthcare and skills training over the past financial year, with Rössing Uranium alone accounting for N.dollars 73.5 million, Erongo Governor Natalia ǀGoagoses said on Wednesday. (Phot contributed) NAMPA

SWAKOPMUND, 17 June 2026 - Mining companies operating in the Erongo Region invested well over N.dollars 160 million in community development, education, healthcare and skills training over the past financial year, with Rössing Uranium alone accounting for N.dollars 73.5 million, Erongo Governor Natalia ǀGoagoses said on Wednesday. (Phot contributed) NAMPA

Belgium's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Maxime Prevot (L) attends the sale of traceable artisanally mined diamonds from DR Congo at the Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC) in Antwerp on June 18, 2026. The diamonds originate from the Kasai region and were mined as part of OrigemA, a Belgian-Congolese initiative that guarantees a fully transparent chain. (Photo by Tom Goyvaerts / Belga / AFP) / Belgium OUT

A photograph taken on June 18, 2026 shows the Paper pulp producer Fibre Excellence factory site in Saint-Gaudens, south western France, as the company faces the withdrawal of its shareholder from Indonesia, Jackson Widjaja. The Fibre Excellence group, which employs 670 people, 275 in Saint-Gaudens and 270 in Tarascon, produces 500,000 tonnes annually out of the two million tonnes of paper pulp consumed in France. (Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP)

French trade union General Confederation of Labour (CGT) secretary general Sophie Binet (L) and President of the Occitanie region Carole Delga (R) arrive at the Paper pulp producer Fibre Excellence factory site in Saint-Gaudens, south western France, on June 18, 2026 during a rally organised by employees as the company faces the withdrawal of its shareholder from Indonesia, Jackson Widjaja. The Fibre Excellence group, which employs 670 people, 275 in Saint-Gaudens and 270 in Tarascon, produces 500,000 tonnes annually out of the two million tonnes of paper pulp consumed in France. (Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP)

French trade union General Confederation of Labour (CGT) secretary general Sophie Binet (L) arrives at the Paper pulp producer Fibre Excellence factory site in Saint-Gaudens, south western France, on June 18, 2026 during a rally organised by employees as the company faces the withdrawal of its shareholder from Indonesia, Jackson Widjaja. The Fibre Excellence group, which employs 670 people, 275 in Saint-Gaudens and 270 in Tarascon, produces 500,000 tonnes annually out of the two million tonnes of paper pulp consumed in France. (Photo by Lionel BONAVENTURE / AFP)

Men interact in a residential locality blanketed in black smoke in Moscow on June 18, 2026. Moscow was fending off a "large-scale" drone attack from Ukraine, with several drones reaching an oil refinery, the city's mayor Sergey Sobyanin said early on June 18, 2026. (Photo by AFP)

France's Interior Minister Laurent Nunez (R) reacts as he is presented a Sniper DP anti-drone jammer at the Interior Ministry's stand of Eurosatory, a land and airland defence and security trade fair in Villepinte on the outskirts of Paris, on June 18, 2026. (Photo by Thomas SAMSON / AFP)

France's Interior Minister Laurent Nunez (R) reacts as he is presented a Sniper DP anti-drone jammer at the Interior Ministry's stand of Eurosatory, a land and airland defence and security trade fair in Villepinte on the outskirts of Paris, on June 18, 2026. (Photo by Thomas SAMSON / AFP)

France's Interior Minister Laurent Nunez (L) reacts as he visits Eurosatory, a land and airland defence and security trade fair in Villepinte on the outskirts of Paris, on June 18, 2026. (Photo by Thomas SAMSON / AFP)