WINDHOEK, 10 June 2026 - Deputy Governor of the Bank of Namibia, Nicholas Mukasa. (Photo by: Molly Weyulu) NAMPA

MARIENTAL, 09 June 2026 - Mariental Residents Association chairperson Werner von Watzdorf. (Photo: Contributed)

SWAKOPMUND, 09 June 2026 - Chief Executive Officer of AFRIQOM, Mounir Halim, speaking at the opening of the Africa Fertiliser Club Conference in Swakopmund on Tuesday. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

SWAKOPMUND, 09 June 2026 - Erongo Governor Natalia |Goagoses and Swakopmund Mayor Suamma Kautondokwa pictured with other delegates at the opening of the Africa Fertiliser Club Conference in Swakopmund on Tuesday. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

MARIENTAL, 08 June 2026 - Hardap Governor, Riaan McNab, on Monday delivered the State of the Region Address. (Photo by: Joe-Chintha Garises) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 08 June 2026 - Minister of Finance Ericah Shafudah welcomes delegates to the Budget Reform Roll-Out Workshop at the Windhoek Country Club on Monday. (Photo by: Chelva Wells) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 08 June 2026- Bank of Namibia Governor Ebson Uanguta presents the macroeconomic and fiscal outlook shaping Namibia’s budget reform agenda at the one-day implementation planning workshop in Windhoek on Monday. (Photo by: Chelva Wells) NAMPA

WINDHOEK, 08 June 2026 - Prime Minister Elijah Ngurare addresses the Budget Reform Roll-Out Workshop in Windhoek on Monday, calling on government offices to act on the FY 2026/27 national budget reform agenda. (Photo by: Chelva Wells) NAMPA

This photograph taken on June 5, 2026 shows a letter bearing the signature of Atto Melani during a press preview as part of the exhibition "Atto Melani (1626–1714). The Secret Voice of Power," at the Labronica Library of Villa Fabbricotti in Livorno on June 5, 2026. A celebrated singer in the courts of Tuscany, Venice, Rome, and France, a protégé of Cardinal Mazarin and close associate of the Sun King, Louis XIV of France, Atto Melani transformed his theatrical success into an extraordinary diplomatic career. Castrated as a child, he constantly struggled between public prestige and the human burden of his condition, yet he managed to become a political mediator, informer, and protagonist in the conclaves that marked the history of the papacy between 1667 and 1700. (Photo by Andreas SOLARO / AFP)

10 June 2026, Berlin: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz speaks at the start of the Federal Cabinet meeting in the Chancellery. Photo: Michael Kappeler/dpa

10 June 2026, Berlin: German Government Chancellor Friedrich Merz (R) sits next to Vice Chancellor and German Minister of Finance Lars Klingbeil prior to the start of a weekly Federal Cabinet meeting. The coalition leaders met to discuss domestic fiscal initiatives and strategic economic reforms amid ongoing budget planning. Photo: Michael Kappeler/dpa

10 June 2026, Baden-Württemberg, Reutlingen: Utility crews conduct urgent repair work following a widespread power outage that disrupted infrastructure across Reutlingen. Technical teams remain deployed in full force to stabilize the local electrical grid and restore power to affected residential and commercial areas. Photo: Jason Tschepljakow/dpa

10 June 2026, Baden-Württemberg, Reutlingen: Utility crews conduct urgent repair work following a widespread power outage that disrupted infrastructure across Reutlingen. Technical teams remain deployed in full force to stabilize the local electrical grid and restore power to affected residential and commercial areas. Photo: Jason Tschepljakow/dpa

10 June 2026, Baden-Württemberg, Reutlingen: Utility crews conduct urgent repair work following a widespread power outage that disrupted infrastructure across Reutlingen. Technical teams remain deployed in full force to stabilize the local electrical grid and restore power to affected residential and commercial areas. Photo: Jason Tschepljakow/dpa

AFP presents a selection of 67 photos taken between October 2024 and November 2025 in Nanterre and in Paris by Joel SAGET of student of the Paris Opera Dance School. Search for all these reportage images using: FRANCE-OPERA-DANCE-SCHOOL-REPORTAGE-VISUAL STORY. Search 'REPORTAGE' to source all feature, magazine and photo essays. (Photo by Joël SAGET / AFP)

Commuters look at the screens indicating departure and arrival times as well as disruptions due to a SNCF national strike movement at the Saint-Charles train station in Marseille, southern France, on June 10, 2026. Some TGV high-speed trains are cancelled on June 10, morning, as well as regional and suburban trains, which are increasingly open to competition, as part of a 24-hour strike organized by SNCF unions. Traffic on June 10 morning is in line with forecasts, SNCF Voyageurs told AFP: regional traffic—the “everyday trains”—is “severely disrupted,” and on long-distance routes an average of one in three TGVs has been cancelled, along with one in two Intercitйs trains. (Photo by MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP)