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

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)

Iceland's Foreign Minister Porgerour Katrin Gunnarsdottir (L) and Italy's Defence Minister Guido Crosetto attend a NATO Defence Ministers meeting at the NATO headquarters, in Brussels, on June 18, 2026. (Photo by JOHN THYS / AFP)

Germany's Defence Minister Boris Pistorius (L) speaks with Greece's Defence Minister Nikolaos Dendias before the start of a NATO Defence Ministers meeting at the NATO headquarters, in Brussels, on June 18, 2026. (Photo by JOHN THYS / AFP)

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte gestures next to Slovenia's Defence Minister Valentin Hajdinjak (L) before a NATO Defence Ministers meeting at the NATO headquarters, in Brussels, on June 18, 2026. (Photo by JOHN THYS / AFP)

Naval officers stand aboard the French Overseas Patrol Vessel Jean Tranape docked at Noumea's port in the French overseas collectivity of New Caledonia, on June 18, 2026. The Patrol Vessel Jean Tranape has joined the armed forces in New Caledonia at its new home port in Noumea. (Photo by Delphine MAYEUR / AFP)