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

A man (far R) walks into a makeshift polling station set up at a fire station in Hindley, part of the parliamentary constituency for the Makerfield by-election, after the polls opened at 7am on June 18, 2026. Britain holds a unique vote on June 18 that could trigger the endgame for Labour leader Keir Starmer's beleaguered premiership, or win him a reprieve. (Photo by Oli SCARFF / AFP)

US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth delivers remarks before a NATO Defence Ministers meeting at the NATO headquarters, in Brussels, on June 18, 2026. (Photo by JOHN THYS / AFP)

Taliban security personnel pose for a photograph while having breakfast at a checkpoint in Kandahar on June 18, 2026. (Photo by Sanaullah SEIAM / AFP)

An Afghan man looks on as girls walk towards a madrassa or Islamic school in Kandahar on June 18, 2026. (Photo by Sanaullah SEIAM / AFP)

A man walks into a makeshift polling station at a parish centre in Winstanley, Wigan, part of the parliamentary constituency for the Makerfield by-election, after polls opened at 7am on June 18, 2026. Britain holds a unique vote on June 18 that could trigger the endgame for Labour leader Keir Starmer's beleaguered premiership, or win him a reprieve. (Photo by Darren Staples / AFP)

People walk out of a makeshift polling station at a parish centre in Winstanley, Wigan, part of the parliamentary constituency for the Makerfield by-election, after polls opened at 7am on June 18, 2026. Britain holds a unique vote on June 18 that could trigger the endgame for Labour leader Keir Starmer's beleaguered premiership, or win him a reprieve. (Photo by Darren Staples / AFP)

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte delivers remarks before 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 delivers remarks before a NATO Defence Ministers meeting at the NATO headquarters, in Brussels, on June 18, 2026. (Photo by JOHN THYS / AFP)