Messages of congratulations have been pouring in to the newly elected President of Seychelles, Wavel Ramkalawan, since he was declared on Sunday the winner of the presidential election. Ramkalawan was sworn in as the fifth president of Seychelles on Monday after winning the presidential election with 54.9 percent of the total valid votes. His party [...]
China warned the United States not to "coerce and bully" Sri Lanka ahead of a visit Tuesday to the strategically-placed island by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Pompeo is expected to ask Colombo to make "difficult" choices on its blossoming relationship with Beijing during his visit. "We are firmly opposed to the United States [...]
Seychelles' seventh National Assembly will be sworn in this week with the party once known as the opposition now in firm control of both the legislative body and the presidency. In the presidential and National Assembly elections October 22-24, the Linyon Demokratik Seselwa (LDS) won 20 out of 26 constituencies. In addition to its elected [...]
Tanzanians head to the polls on Wednesday in an election set to be a litmus test of President John Magufuli's authoritarian style after a five-year crackdown on the opposition and freedom of speech. Voters on the Tanzanian mainland and semi-autonomous archipelago of Zanzibar will cast their ballots for a president and lawmakers after an energetic [...]
Seychelles' newly elected leader, Wavel Ramkawalan, was sworn in as the country's fifth president in a ceremony at State House in the country's capital on Monday. Ramkalawan, whose party, Linyon Demokratik Seselwa (LDS), won a landslide victory in the October 22-24 presidential and legislative elections, won the presidency with 54.9 percent of the valid votes. [...]
Two brochures featuring the botanical and historical highlights in Victoria – the capital city of Seychelles – hope to enhance hikes in the city. The brochures produced by author and nature enthusiast Steen Hansen map out and explain the variety of plants – some endemic – and monuments and sites with great historical importance found [...]
Spain declared a national state of emergency Sunday to tackle a second coronavirus wave as the World Health Organization (WHO) reported a third straight day of record new infections around the world. France set a daily record of more than 50,000 Covid-19 cases, while Chinese officials began mass testing to cover 4.75 million residents in [...]
Wavel Ramkalawan on Sunday won the Seycelles presidential election, the first opposition victory since the Indian Ocean archipelago's independence from Britain over four decades ago. Ramkalawan -- an Anglican priest who won enough votes in the first round to clinch the presidency on his sixth attempt -- called for unity after his victory. "It is [...]
Following a landslide victory in the country's presidential and legislative elections, supporters of the political party Linyon Demokratik Seselwa (LDS) took to the streets on Sunday to celebrate an overwhelming victory. The former opposition party is now the party in clear control of the island nation, sweeping to power in the president's office and the [...]
Wavel Ramkalawan unseated the incumbent President of Seychelles in the island nation's three-day election, winning nearly 55 percent of the vote and ushering in a new era of political leadership after decades of trying to win the archipelago's top office, election officials announced Sunday. Combined with his political party's domination of the National Assembly election, [...]
