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

Activists attempt to push over a security fence near The Oxford Union, in Oxford, western England, on June 17, 2026, where British far-right activist Tommy Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is giving a speech. (Photo by Henry NICHOLLS / AFP)

A lifeguard watches over swimmers the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris on June 17, 2026. France braced for another heat wave on June 17, with Paris allowing swimming in one of its canals so residents could cope with the heat. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP)

Displaced Palestinian women mourn loved ones killed in an Israeli airstrike during a funeral at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 17, 2026. A ceasefire has been in place in Gaza since October, but Israel reserves the right to strike targets it deems a threat. The territory remains gripped by daily violence as Israeli strikes continue, with both the military and Hamas accusing one another of violating the truce. (Photo by Bashar Taleb / AFP)

Displaced Palestinians mourn loved ones killed in an Israeli airstrike during a funeral at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 17, 2026. A ceasefire has been in place in Gaza since October, but Israel reserves the right to strike targets it deems a threat. The territory remains gripped by daily violence as Israeli strikes continue, with both the military and Hamas accusing one another of violating the truce. (Photo by Bashar Taleb / AFP)

Displaced Palestinian women mourn loved ones killed in an Israeli airstrike during a funeral at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 17, 2026. A ceasefire has been in place in Gaza since October, but Israel reserves the right to strike targets it deems a threat. The territory remains gripped by daily violence as Israeli strikes continue, with both the military and Hamas accusing one another of violating the truce. (Photo by Bashar Taleb / AFP)

Palestinian men look at the bodies of victims who were reportedly killed in an Israeli air strike at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 17, 2026. A ceasefire has been in place in Gaza since October, but Israel reserves the right to strike targets it deems a threat. The territory remains gripped by daily violence as Israeli strikes continue, with both the military and Hamas accusing one another of violating the truce. (Photo by Bashar Taleb / AFP)

Displaced Palestinians mourn loved ones killed in an Israeli airstrike during a funeral at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 17, 2026. A ceasefire has been in place in Gaza since October, but Israel reserves the right to strike targets it deems a threat. The territory remains gripped by daily violence as Israeli strikes continue, with both the military and Hamas accusing one another of violating the truce. (Photo by Bashar Taleb / AFP)

Displaced Palestinian women mourn loved ones killed in an Israeli airstrike during a funeral at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 17, 2026. A ceasefire has been in place in Gaza since October, but Israel reserves the right to strike targets it deems a threat. The territory remains gripped by daily violence as Israeli strikes continue, with both the military and Hamas accusing one another of violating the truce. (Photo by Bashar Taleb / AFP)