ONDONGA, 28 May 2026- Ondonga King Fillemon Shuumbwa Nangolo addressing the Genocide Remembrance Day. (Photo: Max Henrich) NAMPA

ONDANGWA, 28 May 2026 - Minister of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sports, Arts and Culture Sanet Steenkamp addressing the Genocide Remembrance Day commemoration at Oluno Community Hall in the Oshana region.

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)

Matis Bloch, the great-grandson of French historian Marc Bloch, reacts as he looks at books at a ceremony at the French embassy in Berlin, during which three German cultural institutions hand over seven books to the descendants of Marc Bloch (1886–1944) and his wife Simonne Vidal (1894–1944), on May 28, 2026. Marc Bloch, a member of the Resistance, was executed by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944. The restitution of the books was organized by the Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage, with the support of the French Commission for the Restitution of Cultural Property and Compensation for the Victims of Anti-Semitic Expropriations (CIVS). (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)

Matis Bloch, the great-grandson of French historian Marc Bloch, reacts as he looks at books at a ceremony at the French embassy in Berlin, during which three German cultural institutions hand over seven books to the descendants of Marc Bloch (1886–1944) and his wife Simonne Vidal (1894–1944), on May 28, 2026. Marc Bloch, a member of the Resistance, was executed by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944. The restitution of the books was organized by the Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage, with the support of the French Commission for the Restitution of Cultural Property and Compensation for the Victims of Anti-Semitic Expropriations (CIVS). (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)

Matis Bloch, the great-grandson of French historian Marc Bloch, reacts as he looks at books at a ceremony at the French embassy in Berlin, during which three German cultural institutions hand over seven books to the descendants of Marc Bloch (1886–1944) and his wife Simonne Vidal (1894–1944), on May 28, 2026. Marc Bloch, a member of the Resistance, was executed by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944. The restitution of the books was organized by the Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage, with the support of the French Commission for the Restitution of Cultural Property and Compensation for the Victims of Anti-Semitic Expropriations (CIVS). (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP)

Sweden's forward #74 Rasmus Asplund (L) fights for the puck with Switzerland's forward #79 Calvin Thurkauf during the IIHF Ice Hockey Men's World Championship quarter-final match between Switzerland and Sweden at the Swiss Life Arena in Zurich, on May 28, 2026. (Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP)

Switzerland's head coach Jan Cadieux (2nd L) reacts during the IIHF Ice Hockey Men's World Championship quarter-final match between Switzerland and Sweden at the Swiss Life Arena in Zurich, on May 28, 2026. (Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP)

Switzerland's head coach Jan Cadieux (L) reacts during the IIHF Ice Hockey Men's World Championship quarter-final match between Switzerland and Sweden at the Swiss Life Arena in Zurich, on May 28, 2026. (Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP)

Canada's Victoria Mboko plays a backhand return to Czech Republic's Katerina Siniakova during their women's singles match on day 5 of the French Open tennis tournament on Court Simonne-Mathieu at the Roland-Garros Complex in Paris on May 28, 2026. (Photo by Thomas SAMSON / AFP)

Canada's Victoria Mboko plays a forehand return to Czech Republic's Katerina Siniakova during their women's singles match on day 5 of the French Open tennis tournament on Court Simonne-Mathieu at the Roland-Garros Complex in Paris on May 28, 2026. (Photo by Thomas SAMSON / AFP)