Jubilant visitors returned to Australia Monday as the country reopened its borders to vaccinated tourists, nearly two years after the island nation imposed some of the world's strictest Covid-19 travel restrictions. At the country's two major international airports in Sydney and Melbourne, tired but elated family and friends rushed from gates to embrace loved ones [...]
Seychelles has taken another step to reaffirm its contribution to ocean science and leadership among small island developing states with the nomination of President Wavel Ramkalawan as one of the two patrons of the Ocean Decade Alliance. This announcement was made at the One Ocean Summit held last week in Brest, France that Ramkalawan attended [...]
Queen Elizabeth II tested positive on Sunday for Covid-19 but aides said her symptoms were "mild", as politicians wished Britain's longest-serving monarch a rapid recovery in her 70th year on the throne. In what is meant to be a banner year of Platinum Jubilee celebrations, the news comes at a stressful time for the 95-year-old [...]
Ethiopia began generating electricity from its mega-dam on the Blue Nile on Sunday, a milestone in the controversial multi-billion dollar project. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, accompanied by high-ranking officials, toured the power generation station and pressed a series of buttons on an electronic screen, a move that officials said initiated production. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance [...]
A census is underway by the Ministry of Environment to determine the current situation of the Seychelles sheath-tailed bat, an endemic species which is on the brink of extinction. A conservation officer in the department, Sophie Morel, told SNA that the ministry conducts a census on the population of "this critically endangered species every [...]
They turned up in a mob of several hundred at a migrant centre in South Africa's Soweto township -- unemployed, wielding weapons and angry with foreigners they accuse of taking their jobs. "Foreigners, go home," they cried, according to witnesses. With unemployment at 35 percent -- and rising up to 65 percent among youth -- [...]
The Seychelles' military forces are better equipped to face any activities at sea after undergoing an 11-day regional maritime exercise led by the U.S. Naval Forces Africa, a top military official said on Friday. The multinational military exercise called Cutlass Express hosted by Seychelles took place from February 8-18 with the participation of 12 nations. [...]
The Seychelles Supreme Court on Friday ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACCS) to provide the disclosure documents in hard copies to the six persons facing corruption charges in the missing $50 million case. The order was made by the presiding judge in the case, Chief Justice Rony Govinden after ACCS expressed difficulty in procuring and providing [...]
The President of Seychelles, Wavel Ramkalawan, has called for more decisive actions against climate change from heads of state in his intervention at the 6th European Union-African Union summit on Thursday. According to State House, Ramkalawan participated in the summit in Brussels which was an opportunity for African and European leaders to lay the foundation [...]
Sri Lanka's state-run petroleum company has run out of cash to buy oil, and fuel shortages across the country could get worse, the energy minister said Friday. Udaya Gammanpila said the loss-making Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) continued to haemorrhage cash and was out of money to procure supplies from abroad. He said the CPC suffered [...]
