WINDHOEK, 22 May 2026 - Sakeus Kapenda, Deputy Director for Trade Promotion speaking the Nsmibia-China Business Forum in Windhoek on Friday, under the theme “Strengthening Namibia-Shandong Economic Cooperation and Investment Partnerships.” (Photo by: Chelva Wells) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 22 May 2026 - Charles Joseph, Acting Head of Department for Bilateral Relations and Cooperation at the Ministry of International Relations and Trade, speaking the Nsmibia-China Business Forum in Windhoek on Friday, under the theme “Strengthening Namibia-Shandong Economic Cooperation and Investment Partnerships.” (Photo by: Chelva Wells) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 22 May 2026 - Delegates during the Namibia-China Business Forum in Windhoek on Friday, under the theme “Strengthening Namibia-Shandong Economic Cooperation and Investment Partnerships.” (Photo by: Chelva Wells) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 22 May 2026 - Deputy Director-General, Shandong Provincial Foreign Affairs Office, Yang Huaiguang, speaking at the Namibia-China Business Forum in Windhoek on Friday, under the theme “Strengthening Namibia-Shandong Economic Cooperation and Investment Partnerships.” (Photo by: Chelva Wells) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 22 May 2026 - Acting CEO of NIPDB, Jessica Hauuanga, speaking at the Namibia-China Business Forum in Windhoek on Friday. The forum took place under the theme “Strengthening Namibia-Shandong Economic Cooperation and Investment Partnerships.” (Photo by: Chelva Wells) NAMPA

SWAKOPMUND, 22 May 2026 - The Kavango West Regional Council is hosting a leadership retreat in Swakopmund. (Photo by: Lylie Joel) NAMPA

SWAKOPMUND, 22 May 2026 - The Kavango West Regional Council is hosting a leadership retreat in Swakopmund, highlighting the mandate to plan, facilitate, coordinate, implement, and monitor socioeconomic development. (Photo by: Lylie Joel) NAMPA

OSHAKATI, 21 May 2026 - Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Emma Theofelus, speaking during the high level ICT stakeholder engagement at Oshakati on Thursday. (Photo by: Ester Hakaala) NAMPA

Guests take their seats ahead ahead of the inauguration ceremony of Benin’s president-elect Romuald Wadagni at the Palais des Congres in Cotonou on May 24, 2026. (Photo by yanick folly / AFP)

Members of the Republican Band prepare to play the national anthem ahead of the inauguration ceremony of Benin’s president-elect Romuald Wadagni at the Palais des Congres in Cotonou on May 24, 2026. (Photo by yanick folly / AFP)

An official walks past the main stage ahead of the inauguration ceremony of Benin’s president-elect Romuald Wadagni at the Palais des Congres in Cotonou on May 24, 2026. (Photo by yanick folly / AFP)

Austria’s Sonja Kraus plays a forehand return to Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic during their women's singles match on day 1 of the French Open tennis tournament on Court Philippe-Chatrier at the Roland-Garros Complex in Paris on May 24, 2026. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)

British climber Kenton Cool (L) walks upon his arrival at the Tribhuvan International airport in Kathmandu on May 24, 2026, after breaking his own world record for the most ascents of the Mount Everest by a non-Nepali with his 20th summit. (Photo by Prakash MATHEMA / AFP)

British climber Kenton Cool gestures upon his arrival at the Tribhuvan International airport in Kathmandu on May 24, 2026, after breaking his own world record for the most ascents of the Mount Everest by a non-Nepali with his 20th summit. (Photo by Prakash MATHEMA / AFP)

British climber Kenton Cool sits in a car upon his arrival at the Tribhuvan International airport in Kathmandu on May 24, 2026, after breaking his own world record for the most ascents of the Mount Everest by a non-Nepali with his 20th summit. (Photo by Prakash MATHEMA / AFP)

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (C) talks to Ukraine's Minister of Internal Affairs Igor Klymenko (L) as they approach the National Chernobyl Museum, heavily damaged by an overnight Russian airstrike, in Kyiv on May 24, 2026, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. AFP journalists reported intense shelling on the Ukrainian capital overnight from May 23 to 24, 2026 which left at least four people dead in Kyiv and its surrounding area, just days after a deadly Ukrainian attack on a high school in a Russian-occupied region - an incident for which Russian President Vladimir Putin had vowed a military response. (Photo by Serhii Okunev / AFP)