The head of the World Health Organization has warned that confirmed cases of coronavirus being transmitted by people who have never travelled to China could be the "tip of the iceberg". Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus' remarks come as members of a WHO-led "international expert mission" flew to China on Monday to help coordinate a response to [...]
Kenya's second president Daniel arap Moi took power promising peace, love and unity, but ended up mired in graft scandals, stifling democracy and fanning the dangerous embers of tribalism. Leading Kenya from 1978-2002 with an iron fist, his 24-year reign was infamous for torture, corruption, the crushing of opposition voices and arbitrary detentions without trial. [...]
The Seychellois lawyer and human rights activist Alexia Amesbury was elected to the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights on Friday, said State House. Her candidacy was endorsed by the government of Seychelles, an archipelago in the western Indian Ocean. Amesbury was elected by 33 votes against 12 during the commission assembly in Addis [...]
Is it possible for Seychelles to become too popular? Can the island nation's infrastructure and ecology cope with the growing number of tourists? A new study in response to the growing number of tourists visiting Seychelles aims to answer those questions. It is being carried out by the Ministry of Tourism, Civil Aviation, Ports and [...]
Makeda Mbewe was just six years old when she was kicked out of her primary school in Malawi for wearing her hair in the dreadlocks of her Rastafarian religion. Two years later, she is back in the playground, thanks to a landmark court ruling in January forcing state schools to accept children wearing their hair [...]
Mustafa Harun Bristol, a Seychellois entrepreneur who started a quest to revive the island nation’s plantation industry, has won the 2019 Entrepreneur of the Year Award. The owner of Globarom and Tropeko has won the eighth edition of the award, which is organised by the Seychelles Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI). “It goes [...]
The Seychelles Maritime Safety Administration on Friday became an independent and autonomous authority, giving Seychelles one government body in charge of regulating, managing and administrating maritime affairs and safety. President Danny Faure assented to the Seychelles Maritime Safety Administration Bill 2019 on Friday at State House. After becoming an authority, on top of ensuring maritime [...]
Kenya's president said Wednesday that African nations should be free to cooperate with both the United States and China, warning that foreign powers were exacerbating the continent's divisions. President Uhuru Kenyatta was speaking on a visit to Washington, where speculation has built that the United States will seek to negotiate a free-trade agreement with Kenya, [...]
China's coronavirus crisis deepened on Thursday with the death toll soaring to 563, as thousands of people trapped on quarantined cruise ships added to the global panic about the epidemic. More than 28,000 people have now been infected across China as authorities struggle to contain the outbreak despite compelling millions to stay indoors in a [...]
Two new patrol vessels gifted by the Sri Lankan government in February last year to boost maritime surveillance in Seychelles arrived on Tuesday on board an Indian Navy ship. The two wave rider inshore patrol crafts were officially handed over to the Seychelles' Vice-President Vincent Meriton during his two-day visit in Sri Lanka in February [...]
