In a first step that will lead to Seychelles' airport arrival process going completely digital, the island nation's Ministry of Transport said Wednesday it is starting a trial that will begin the phase-out of paper arrival forms. The current forms, which are reviewed on arrival by Immigration Officers at the airport, will be gradually replaced [...]
Areas of Seychelles on Tuesday saw restrictions imposed on the use of tap water, a response to drought conditions in the island nation, said an official of the Public Utilities Corporation (PUC). The restrictions mean that residents in most areas on the main island of Mahe will not have running water from 10 pm to [...]
Malaysia's king on Tuesday urged rival politicians to unite to battle a worsening coronavirus outbreak as the hunt began for a new prime minister, an opposition leader said. Analysts said the monarch, who appoints the premier, was trying to push the country's political parties towards forming a unity government following Muhyiddin Yassin's resignation Monday. Following [...]
The Seychelles Trading Company (STC) has launched a local tender for the provision and installation of photovoltaic panels on its Bois de Rose Complex, said an STC official. The company's head of human resources, Jean Raguin, said that the main aim of the project is to reduce the amount of money STC pays out in electricity [...]
The White House said Tuesday the Taliban had promised that civilians could travel safely to the Kabul airport as the US military stepped up its airlift for Americans and Afghans fleeing the Islamist group. Some 3,200 people have been evacuated by the US military so far, a White House official said, including 1,100 on Tuesday [...]
The values and principles of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are guiding its members in the creation of a region in which cooperation, rather than conflict, drives progress, said President Wavel Ramkalawan of Seychelles in an address to the bloc's annual summit on Tuesday. Ramkalawan made the statement via video teleconference on the occasion of [...]
Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina named a new cabinet Sunday, but retained his previous prime minister, days after dissolving the entire government. In a televised speech, he kept the 60-year-old Prime Minister Christian Ntsay and brought back 10 other ministers, but introduced 22 new faces to the government of the large Indian Ocean island. Among those [...]
Zambian president-elect Hakainde Hichilema on Monday slammed the southern African country's outgoing "brutal regime" while promising a "better democracy" in his debut address to the nation, hours after winning the top job in a landslide. Speaking shortly after his predecessor Edgar Lungu conceded defeat, the business tycoon and veteran opposition leader said his camp had [...]
Margaret Woodfield Pouponneau celebrated her first birthday as the oldest citizen of Seychelles on Sunday as she turned 109. The centenarian spent her special day with her surviving children and other members of her family at her residence in the central district of St. Louis on the main island of Mahe. Pouponneau became the oldest [...]
The death toll from Haiti's powerful earthquake jumped to over 1,200 on Sunday, as crews desperately dug through collapsed buildings for survivors in the Caribbean nation still reeling from its president's assassination. In Les Cayes, as in other hard-hit cities on the southwestern peninsula, most of the population spent the night sleeping outdoors in front [...]
