Award-winning travel brands in Africa and the Indian Ocean have been unveiled at the World Travel Awards gala ceremony in Durban, South Africa on Saturday The World Travel Awards support, promote and develop the global travel and tourism industry by identifying and rewarding excellence and inspiring its practitioners to raise the standards of their products [...]
Saudi Arabia's crown prince and de facto ruler ordered an operation targeting journalist and US resident Jamal Khashoggi, who has been missing for more than a week, The Washington Post reported Wednesday citing US intelligence intercepts. Khashoggi -- a US resident and one of the more outspoken critics of the regime of King Salman and [...]
Maldives strongman President Abdulla Yameen filed a legal petition Wednesday challenging his landslide election defeat last month despite major international pressure for him to step down. Lawyers for Yameen's Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) told reporters that they are alleging that the September 23 vote was rigged by the independent election commission. "We reviewed the [...]
Air Seychelles, the island nation's national carrier, named Remco Althuis its permanent chief executive after serving as the interim chief executive for nine months. SNA met with Althuis to learn more about the 48-year-old Netherlands citizen and plans that he has for Air Seychelles. Althuis joined the company after the former chief executive, Roy Kinnear, [...]
Intelvision is set to be amongst companies with the largest PV systems on the island nation after the installation of a 100kw system at its headquarters and plans for more installations at other offices. An engineer at the company, Krassimir Bebov, told SNA last Tuesday that the management has been thinking for a while about going [...]
Hurricane Michael intensified Tuesday as it barreled toward the Florida coast, becoming a major Category 3 storm capable of "devastating damage" which the state's governor warned could be the worst in decades. Michael packed winds of 120 miles per hour (195 kilometers per hour) as it aimed for the Florida Panhandle, the finger-shaped strip of [...]
An economic empowerment project for women called ‘50 Million African Women Speak - Digital Networking Platform’ has been launched in Seychelles, one of 38 countries in Africa where the project will be unveiled. The project is an initiative of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, or COMESA, and was launched last year. “Women [...]
Madagascar's election race officially opened on Monday with all three recent presidents launching their campaigns ahead of the November 7 vote, which follows months of political tensions. The Indian Ocean island suffers dire poverty and relies on foreign aid. It was rocked between April and June by protests in the main square of the capital [...]
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena visited the Lanka Hospital branch in Seychelles on Monday as part of his three-day official visit to the island nation. Sirisena was given a guided tour of the facility and was acquainted with the services provided in Seychelles. Sirisena unveiled a plaque at the medical centre in commemoration of his [...]
Countries must work urgently to solve water issues caused by climate change, a Dutch official billed as the world's only "water ambassador" said Monday, backing a dire warning from the UN. Henk Ovink said nations should be planning now to anticipate future problems, from flooding or sea level rises at one end of the scale [...]