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

OMATJETE, 15 June 2026 - Senior councillor of the Zeraeua Traditional Authority Fabianus Uaseuapuani during an interview with Nampa ahead of the SORA in the Erongo Region. (Photo by: Chelva Wells) NAMPA

DAURES, 16 June 2026 - A signage indicating the three settlement and villages of Uis, Omatjete and Okombahe, respectively. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 16 June 2026 - Road Fund Administration’s (RFA) Executive of Information and Communication Technology, Dennis Shindume, pictured after a government information-sharing session at the Government Information Centre (GIC). (Photo: Edward Tenete) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 16 June 2026 - President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has called for action against child abuse on African Child Day (Photo: Contributed)

Arianespace's Ariane 6 rocket equipped for the first time with four P160C boosters, carrying a paylaod of 36 satellites from Amazon’s Leo constellation as part of Flight VA269, at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, on the French overseas department of Guiana on June 17, 2026. (Photo by RONAN LIETAR / AFP)

Arianespace's Ariane 6 rocket equipped for the first time with four P160C boosters, carrying a paylaod of 36 satellites from Amazon’s Leo constellation as part of Flight VA269, at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, on the French overseas department of Guiana on June 17, 2026. (Photo by RONAN LIETAR / AFP)

Bollywood actors Kriti Sanon (R), Shahid Kapoor (C) and pose for paparazzi photographers during the song launch of their Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy drama film 'Cocktail 2' in Mumbai on June 17, 2026. (Photo by Sujit JAISWAL / AFP)

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius is welcomed by Poland's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz on June 17, 2026 in Warsaw, Poland. The two ministers are to sign a bilateral agreement on Polish-German defence cooperation. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)

Polish Minister of Culture Marta Cienkowska looks at medieval parchment leaves containing part of the text of the Polish hymn "Gaude Mater Polonia," estimated to date from the late 14th century, as cultural artifacts looted by the German occupying forces during World War II are restituted to Poland, during the German-Polish Forum at the Foreign Ministry in Berlin on June 17, 2026. (Photo by RALF HIRSCHBERGER / AFP)

Polish Minister of Culture Marta Cienkowska looks at medieval parchment leaves containing part of the text of the Polish hymn "Gaude Mater Polonia," estimated to date from the late 14th century, as cultural artifacts looted by the German occupying forces during World War II are restituted to Poland, during the German-Polish Forum at the Foreign Ministry in Berlin on June 17, 2026. (Photo by RALF HIRSCHBERGER / AFP)

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius (L) is welcomed by Poland's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz on June 17, 2026 in Warsaw, Poland. The two ministers are to sign a bilateral agreement on Polish-German defence cooperation. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)

Polish Minister of Culture Marta Cienkowska looks at medieval parchment leaves containing part of the text of the Polish hymn "Gaude Mater Polonia," estimated to date from the late 14th century, as cultural artifacts looted by the German occupying forces during World War II are restituted to Poland, during the German-Polish Forum at the Foreign Ministry in Berlin on June 17, 2026. (Photo by RALF HIRSCHBERGER / AFP)