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

This photograph shows a general view of Marseille and the Notre-Dame de la Garde Basilica taken from the Canebiere district at sunset on June 13, 2026. (Photo by MIGUEL MEDINA / AFP)

France's President Emmanuel Macron arrives for the closing press conference of the G7 summit, in Evian, eastern France, on June 17, 2026. A G7 summit is set to take place June 15 to 17 in the French town of Evian-les-Bains near Switzerland and it will be attended by country leaders as well as the EU's foreign policy chief and ministers from Brazil, Canada, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP)

Defense lawyer Karim Laoufi (L) speaks with plaintiff's lawyer Mathias Chichportich during the trial of French controversial humorist Dieudonne MBala MBala for advocating terrorism in Paris on June 17, 2026. (Photo by Mehdi FEDOUACH / AFP)

FILED - 23 June 2010, North Rhine-Westphalia, Cologne: FILE PHOTO - A woman buries her face in her hands at her workplace in Cologne. Photo: Oliver Berg/dpa

(COMBO) This combination of file photos created on June 17, 2026, shows Bosnia-Herzegovina's forward #11 Edin Dzeko in Zenica on March 31, 2026 (L); and Sweden's forward #07 Benjamin Nygren in Geneva, on November 15, 2025. Switzerland and Bosnia and Herzegovina will mett in a 2026 World Cup Group B football match at the Los Angeles Stadium in Inglewood on June 18, 2026. (Photo by Elvis BARUKCIC and Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

Italian rider Andrea Bagioli of team Lidl-Treck is pictured after crossing the finish line in third place in the first stage of the Men's Tour of Switzerland (Tour de Suisse) cycling race, in Sondrio, Italy, on June 17, 2026. (Photo by Marco BERTORELLO / AFP)

Italian rider Andrea Bagioli of team Lidl-Treck is pictured after crossing the finish line in third place in the first stage of the Men's Tour of Switzerland (Tour de Suisse) cycling race, in Sondrio, Italy, on June 17, 2026. (Photo by Marco BERTORELLO / AFP)

Slovenia's rider Tadej Pogacar of team UAE Emirates - XRG celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win the first stage of the Men's Tour of Switzerland (Tour de Suisse) cycling race, in Sondrio, Italy, on June 17, 2026. (Photo by Marco BERTORELLO / AFP)