The opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics began on Friday as China attempted to turn the page on a troubled build-up overshadowed by human rights concerns and Covid. The lattice-shaped "Bird's Nest" stadium took centre stage, just as it did at the 2008 Games -- seen as China's coming-out party on the world stage [...]
Mohamed Salah's Egypt are through to the final of the Africa Cup of Nations after beating hosts Cameroon 3-1 on penalties at the end of a goalless 120 minutes in Yaounde on Thursday. Goalkeeper Mohamed Abou Gabal was the Egyptian hero, saving from both Harold Moukoudi and James Lea-Siliki in the shoot-out at the Olembe [...]
Seychelles' environmental lawyer Angelique Pouponneau has been named as one of the 100 most influential Africans in 2021 by the New African magazine. Pouponneau, who recently stepped down as chief executive of the Seychelles Conservation and Climate Adaptation Trust (SeyCCAT) to pursue her doctoral studies, began her environmental career when she co-founded the Small Islands [...]
West African leaders hold a key summit on Thursday as a wave of coups buffet a region struggling with poverty and a long history of turbulence. Emergency talks in the Ghanaian capital Accra were triggered after Burkina Faso on January 24 became the third member of the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) [...]
Seychelles' health authorities have refurbished a fully functioning 60-bed field hospital, gifted by the government of Qatar in September last year, to better suit the island nation's weather conditions. The field hospital, located at the Seychelles Coast Guard base at Perseverance - a man-made island – is a fully air-conditioned isolation centre for COVID-19 patients, [...]
Senegal are through to a second consecutive Africa Cup of Nations final after breaking Burkina Faso hearts in their last-four tie in Yaounde on Wednesday, Abdou Diallo, Idrissa Gana Gueye and Sadio Mane scoring second-half goals to secure a 3-1 victory. Africa's top-ranked national team, Senegal will find out their opponents in Sunday's final on [...]
With reforestation and increasing biodiversity at the core of its objectives, the National Assembly of Seychelles adopted part of a wetland area on the outskirt of the island nation's capital, Victoria, on Wednesday. To commemorate World Wetlands Day on February 2, the parliament, located on the reclaimed island of Ile du Port, adopted the wetland [...]
A sub-variant of the highly contagious Omicron coronavirus strain, which some studies indicate could be even more infectious than the original version, has been detected in 57 countries, the WHO said Tuesday. The fast-spreading and heavily mutated Omicron variant has rapidly become the dominant variant worldwide since it was first detected in southern Africa 10 [...]
The President of Seychelles, Wavel Ramkalawan, will attend the African Union (AU) annual summit for heads of state and government taking place in Addis Ababa from February 3-6, State House said on Wednesday. This year, the AU will celebrate its 50th anniversary and the chairmanship will be handed over by the Democratic Republic of Congo to [...]
Guinea-Bissau's president on Tuesday said he survived heavy fire for five hours during an attempted coup which he claimed killed or injured many people in the unstable west African country. Umaro Sissoco Embalo told reporters he faced "sustained fire from heavy arms for five hours" with a military advisor, minister and two bodyguards in the [...]
