The president of Seychelles said that he is confident in the national health measures taken to protect the island nation as the country reopens to the world on Thursday. President Wavel Ramkalawan added that the number of flights poised to come to Seychelles and their provisional bookings is very encouraging. The head of state spoke [...]
Seychelles is developing an innovative Digital Identity platform that is expected to be integrated with different national initiatives like eGovernment, eTourism and eHealth as the island nation further embraces a digital future. The development of the platform will be through a pilot project ran over one year which follows the signing of a Memorandum of [...]
A giant container ship has blocked the Suez Canal in Egypt, tracking websites showed Wednesday, bringing marine traffic to a shuddering halt along one of the world's busiest trade routes. A photo posted Tuesday showed the Taiwan-owned MV Ever Given, a 400-metre- (1,300-foot-)long and 59-metre wide vessel, lodged sideways and impeding all traffic across the [...]
The Emir of Qatar, Sheik Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, will be undertaking an official visit to Seychelles during the second part of the year. President Wavel Ramkalawan of Seychelles announced the planned visit upon his return Tuesday to the island nation from a three-day official visit to Qatar. Support for the budget, sharing of experiences [...]
Power cuts, corruption and tensions within the ruling ANC party usually dominate the headlines in South Africa. But today, they have been sidelined by one question: who will be the monarch of the Zulus now that their longest-serving ruler is gone? King Goodwill Zwelithini passed away on March 12 at 72 after half a century [...]
A huge blaze that ripped through a sprawling Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh has forced at least 50,000 people to flee and left seven people feared dead, officials and aid workers said, in the biggest fire to hit the shanty settlement to date. Nearly one million of the persecuted Muslim minority from Myanmar -- many [...]
Air Seychelles will resume flights to Tel Aviv as of March 23 following the removal of travel restrictions and the reopening of Israel's Ben Gurion Airport, the airline said on Monday. The airline said that to boost demand on this route over the upcoming Passover Holidays March 23 to 27, Air Seychelles will operate four [...]
Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina has said he does not plan to vaccinate himself against Covid-19, preferring a herbal "remedy", and is in no hurry to launch mass inoculations for his citizens. "Personally I have not yet been vaccinated and I do not have any intention of getting vaccinated," he said in a televised address late [...]
Seychelles continued its COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Monday with the roll-out of the second dose of the COVISHIELD vaccine for people above 60 years, said the Ministry of Health. The vaccine is being administered eight weeks later than scheduled to people who received their first dose from January 26 to 31. The health authority increased [...]
African leaders from across the continent on Monday paid tribute to Tanzania's late president John Magufuli, who leaves a complex legacy following his sudden death from an illness shrouded in mystery. Thousands of mourners lined the streets of the capital Dodoma, running alongside the motorcade carrying Magufuli's casket to the Jamhuri Stadium for the funeral. [...]
