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

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

People arrive on a coach at Ciego de Avila, Cuba, on June 15, 2026. New restrictions on interprovincial transport in Cuba come into force on June 18, 2026, with trains running every 16 days, few weekly coaches and a state system for allocating tickets according to criteria of "urgency", amid a severe fuel shortage, under pressure from Washington. (Photo by AFP)

Aerial view of Cali, Colombia, on June 17, 2026. Colombians vote on June 21, 2026 in a presidential runoff pitting a hard-right opera-singer-turned-lawyer against a leftist senator, an election with stark consequences for the country's stumbling peace process with armed groups and strained ties with Washington. (Photo by JOAQUIN SARMIENTO / AFP)

Aerial view of a billboards reading “Cali, the first miracle city. Put a stripe on the tiger” inviting to vote for Colombia's presidential canditate Abelardo de la Espriella, of the Salvadores de la Patria movement, in the upcoming presidential election in Cali, Colombia, on June 17, 2026. Colombians vote on June 21, 2026 in a presidential runoff pitting a hard-right opera-singer-turned-lawyer against a leftist senator, an election with stark consequences for the country's stumbling peace process with armed groups and strained ties with Washington. (Photo by JOAQUIN SARMIENTO / AFP)

Aerial view of a billboard inviting to vote for presidential canditate Abelardo de la Espriella, of the Salvadores de la Patria movement, in the upcoming presidential election in Cali, Colombia, on June 17, 2026. Colombians vote on June 21, 2026 in a presidential runoff pitting a hard-right opera-singer-turned-lawyer against a leftist senator, an election with stark consequences for the country's stumbling peace process with armed groups and strained ties with Washington. (Photo by JOAQUIN SARMIENTO / AFP)

Aerial view of billboards inviting to vote for presidential canditate Abelardo de la Espriella, of the Salvadores de la Patria movement (R), and for Ivan Cepdepa, of the Pacto Historico Political Party, in the upcoming presidential election in Cali, Colombia, on June 17, 2026. Colombians vote on June 21, 2026 in a presidential runoff pitting a hard-right opera-singer-turned-lawyer against a leftist senator, an election with stark consequences for the country's stumbling peace process with armed groups and strained ties with Washington. (Photo by JOAQUIN SARMIENTO / AFP)

People stand next to their luggage outside the Ferrocarriles de Cuba train station in Havana on June 16, 2026. New restrictions on interprovincial transport in Cuba come into force on June 18, 2026, with trains running every 16 days, few weekly coaches and a state system for allocating tickets according to criteria of "urgency", amid a severe fuel shortage, under pressure from Washington. (Photo by YAMIL LAGE / AFP)

People arrive on a coach at Ciego de Avila, Cuba, on June 15, 2026. New restrictions on interprovincial transport in Cuba come into force on June 18, 2026, with trains running every 16 days, few weekly coaches and a state system for allocating tickets according to criteria of "urgency", amid a severe fuel shortage, under pressure from Washington. (Photo by AFP)

Men stand besides luggage and stacked boxes on a platform in front of a carriage of a Ferrocarriles de Cuba train, in Havana on June 16, 2026. New restrictions on interprovincial transport in Cuba come into force on June 18, 2026, with trains running every 16 days, few weekly coaches and a state system for allocating tickets according to criteria of "urgency", amid a severe fuel shortage, under pressure from Washington. (Photo by YAMIL LAGE / AFP)