The President of Seychelles, Wavel Ramkalawan, will depart Seychelles for Abu Dhabi on Friday to attend the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week 2023 (ADSW), according to a State House press statement on Thursday. Ramkalwan was invited to attend the ADSW by the President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan. “During his participation [...]
The outgoing Chinese Ambassador to Seychelles, Guo Wei, was honoured at a farewell reception at the Eden Bleu hotel, also marking celebration of the Chinese Spring Festival, also known as the Chinese New Year. The ceremony took place on Wednesday evening in the presence of the President of Seychelles, Wavel Ramkalawan, the Vice-President, Ahmed Afif, [...]
Aviation authorities were racing Wednesday to figure out what caused the outage of a crucial alert system that forced the temporary halt on all US domestic takeoffs, triggering thousands of delays and cancellations. The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said normal operations were being restored but the early morning halt created knock-on effects that snarled [...]
President Wavel Ramkalawan on Wednesday presented three new ambassadors of Seychelles with their instrument of appointment in a short ceremony at State House, sharing with them his expectations. The appointment of the three ambassadors - Kenneth Racombo, Georges Tirant and Gervais Moumou - was approved by the National Assembly on December 12. The three ambassadors shared with the [...]
The Seychelles Ports Authority has launched an expression of interest (EOI) for the Kato Nwar project development on Praslin, a top official said on Wednesday. Antony Derjaques, the Minister for Transport, told reporters that they are mainly targeting inhabitants from Praslin, the second largest populated island of the archipelago. "When evaluating the bids, the project [...]
Uganda on Wednesday declared an end to an Ebola virus outbreak that emerged almost four months ago and claimed the lives of 55 people. "We have successfully controlled the Ebola outbreak in Uganda," Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng said at a ceremony in the central district of Mubende, where the disease was first detected in [...]
A major cyclone is set to hit the US state of California with up to seven inches (18 centimeters) of rain on Wednesday, the National Weather Service said, after tens of thousands of people were placed under evacuation orders due to a barrage of storms that killed at least 17 people. On Tuesday, torrential downpours [...]
The outgoing Chinese Ambassador to Seychelles, Guo Wei, paid her final visit to the President of Seychelles, Wavel Ramkalawan, at State House on Tuesday afternoon, expressing her satisfaction for having played her part in strengthening the good relationship between the two nations. "During the last four years, we have managed to do a lot together, [...]
For the first time since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual reopening of Seychelles' courts was carried out in accordance with its traditional format. The ceremony started with a church service at the St. Paul's Anglican Cathedral followed by a procession of judges and magistrates on Independence Avenue in the capital of Victoria. An [...]
The World Health Organization said on Tuesday it did not expect a surge of Covid-19 cases in China to "significantly impact" the situation in Europe. "The ongoing surge in China is not anticipated to significantly impact the Covid-19 epidemiological situation in the WHO European Region at this time," Hans Kluge, WHO's Europe director, told a [...]
