OPUWO, 28 May 2026- Director-General of the National Planning Commission Dr Kaire Mbuende addressing the Genocide Remembrance Day commemoration at Opuwo in the Kunene Region. (Photo: Kaviveterue Virere) NAMPA

OPUWO, 28 May 2026- Director-General of the National Planning Commission Dr Kaire Mbuende, Kunene Governor Vipuakuje Muharukua, and Minister of Industries, Mines and Energy Modestus Amutse during the Genocide Remembrance Day in Opuwo, Kunene Region. (Photo: Kaviveterue Virere) NAMPA

SWAKOPMUND, 28 May 2026 - Chiefs of the Zeraeua and !Oe-ǂGan Traditional Authorities Ombara Manase Christian Zeraeua and Gaob Immanuel ǂNu-axa ǃGâseb (l), Chairperson of the Genocide Committee in Erongo Uahimisa Kaapehi (m) and other political and traditional leaders kneel at the entrance of the Swakopmund Memorial Park to seek for permission from the ancestors before entering the cemetery, during the Ovaherero and Nama Genocide. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

SWAKOPMUND, 28 May 2026 - Gaob Immanuel ǂNu-axa ǃGâseb of the !Oe-ǂGan Traditional Authority, Erongo Governor Natalia |Goagoses, Ombara Manase Christian Zeraeua of the Zeraeua Traditional Authority and Former Member of Parliament (MP) Usutuaije Maamberua paying their respects to the victims of the 1904-1908 Ovaherero and Nama Genocide at the Swakopmund Memorial Park, during the Genocide Remembrance Day. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

SWAKOPMUND, 28 MAY 2026 - Chiefs of the Zeraeua and !Oe-ǂGan Traditional Authorities Ombara Manase Christian Zeraeua and Gaob Immanuel ǂNu-axa ǃGâseb laying a wreath on the Ovaherero and Nama Genocide Monument at the Swakopmund Memorial Park, in remembrance of the 1904-1908 Genocide. (Photo by: Isabel Bento) NAMPA

OPUWO, 28 May 2026 - Senior Council Uahuna Tjiposa of the Otjikaoko Traditional Authority speaking at the Genocide Remembrance Day commemoration held at Opuwo in the Kunene Region on Thursday. (Photo: Contributed)

KATIMA MULILO, 27 May 2026 – Kabbe North Constituency Councilor and Chairperson of the Zambezi Regional Council Management Committee, Bernard Sisamu, speaking on behalf of the Zambezi Governor, Dorothy Kabula -Simushi at the belated World Malaria Day commemoration held at the Mukwahepo Sports Field in the Diary Compound of the Katima Mulilo Urban Constituency. (Photo: Contributed)

OPUWO, 27 May 2026 - Descendant of genocide victims, Mike Kavekotora and Stein Katupa pictured during a Government Information Centre engagement in Opuwo on Wednesday, ahead of Genocide Remembrance Day. (Photo: Contributed)

Germany's Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil (L) gestures as he chats with Netherlands' Minister of Finance Eelco Heinen by the water prior to a meeting at the Recreation Center of the German central bank (Deutsche Bundesbank) at Wannsee lake in Berlin on May 28, 2026. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)

Germany's Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil (R) and Poland's Finance Minister Andrzej Domanski chat by the water prior to a meeting at the Recreation Center of the German central bank (Deutsche Bundesbank) at Wannsee lake in Berlin on May 28, 2026. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)

France's Economy, Finances and Industry Minister Roland Lescure is pictured on the background of waving flags prior to a meeting with the Finance Ministers of Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland a at the Recreation Center of the German central bank (Deutsche Bundesbank) at Wannsee lake in Berlin on May 28, 2026. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)

(from L) UDR's MP Christelle D'Intorni, mayor of Nice Eric Ciotti and France's Interior Minister Laurent Nunez meet with representatives of local associations during a visit to the Les Moulins neighbourhood in Nice, south-eastern France on May 28, 2026. Two men and a woman suspected of being involved in a shooting that left two people dead and six injured in Nice on May 11 in the Les Moulins district of Nice have been charged and remanded in custody, in a new case illustrating the turf wars associated with drug-related gang activity. (Photo by Frederic DIDES / AFP)

(from L) UDR's MP Christelle D'Intorni, mayor of Nice Eric Ciotti, France's Interior Minister Laurent Nunez and Deputy Prefect responsible for Urban Policy and Social Policy, Celine Maquet meet with representatives of local associations during a visit to the Les Moulins neighbourhood in Nice, south-eastern France on May 28, 2026. Two men and a woman suspected of being involved in a shooting that left two people dead and six injured in Nice on May 11 in the Les Moulins district of Nice have been charged and remanded in custody, in a new case illustrating the turf wars associated with drug-related gang activity. (Photo by Frederic DIDES / AFP)

Police officers patrol the Les Moulins neighbourhood within a visit to the district by France's Interior Minister in Nice, south-eastern France on May 28, 2026. Two men and a woman suspected of being involved in a shooting that left two people dead and six injured in Nice on May 11 in the Les Moulins district of Nice have been charged and remanded in custody, in a new case illustrating the turf wars associated with drug-related gang activity. (Photo by Frederic Dides / AFP)

France's Interior Minister Laurent Nunez (C) and mayor of Nice Eric Ciotti (C-L) meet with representatives of local associations during a visit to the Les Moulins neighbourhood in Nice, south-eastern France on May 28, 2026. Two men and a woman suspected of being involved in a shooting that left two people dead and six injured in Nice on May 11 in the Les Moulins district of Nice have been charged and remanded in custody, in a new case illustrating the turf wars associated with drug-related gang activity. (Photo by Frederic DIDES / AFP)

France's Interior Minister Laurent Nunez (C-R), Interdepartmental Director of the National Police, Frédéric Pizzini (C) and Prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes department Laurent Hottiaux (R) meet with local police officers of the National Police force during a visit to the Les Moulins neighbourhood in Nice, south-eastern France on May 28, 2026. Two men and a woman suspected of being involved in a shooting that left two people dead and six injured in Nice on May 11 in the Les Moulins district of Nice have been charged and remanded in custody, in a new case illustrating the turf wars associated with drug-related gang activity. (Photo by Frederic DIDES / AFP)