More clashes broke out over Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara's reelection on Tuesday as West African nations and France called for dialogue to end tensions over his contested third term. Ouattara secured the October 31 election by more than 94 percent, but the West African nation is mired in a dispute after opposition leaders rejected [...]
The new minister for fisheries in Seychelles says that over the next five years efforts will be made to raise the profile of the fishing industry -- perhaps like the level of the tourism industry -- so it can generate wealth which will contribute into the socio-economic development of the people of the island nation. [...]
Seychelles' economic situation is alarming, the finance minister said Tuesday while detailing how economic growth in the tourist-dependent nation may contract by 13.5 percent instead of the 10.8 percent previously foreseen due to the hardships brought by COVID-19. The new Minister of Finance, Naadir Hassan, made the statement in response to a private notice question [...]
Mali's former president Amadou Toumani Toure, who led the Sahel nation for a decade before being ousted in a coup, has died in Turkey aged 72, a family member and a doctor said on Tuesday. "Amadou Toumani Toure died during the night of Monday to Tuesday in Turkey," where he had been taken for health [...]
Danny Faure is the first president of Seychelles to lose a re-election bid after the re-introduction of multiparty democracy in 1992. Faure lost the October presidential election after receiving 28,178 votes or 43.5 percent. His party, United Seychelles, won only six of the 26 directly elected seats in the National Assembly election held simultaneously. This [...]
Pfizer stock surged higher Monday prior to the opening of Wall Street trading after the company announced its vaccine is "90 percent effective" against Covid-19 infections. The news cheered markets worldwide, especially as coronavirus cases are spiking, forcing millions of people back into lockdown. Pfizer shares jumped 15 percent around 1355 GMT after Pfizer and [...]
The Seychelles' Department of Health has moved Israel up to the list of countries permitted to visit the island nation as of November 16, a listing welcomed by the Seychelles Tourism Board (STB). This means that visitors from Israel must have a COVID-19 negative PCR test 48 hours before departure for Seychelles alongside their [...]
The new Chief Justice of Seychelles, Ronny Goviden, said he will relook at some of the fundamental principles in the local judicial system, especially concerning the rule of law. Govinden was sworn in on Monday at State House and becomes the fourth Seychellois to assume the position. He succeeds Mathilda Twomey, whose mandate ended in [...]
CNN's energetic international correspondent Richard Quest is back in Seychelles to film a new segment for his show "Quest's World of Wonder". On his second visit to Seychelles, Quest said that the island nation has the strictest COVID-19 measures of all countries he has visited. "Here, every shop, every restaurant, every office you go [...]
More than 50 million novel coronavirus infections have been detected worldwide, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1615 GMT on Sunday. A total of more than 50,010,400 cases, including 1,251,980 deaths, have been recorded globally since the pandemic erupted in China in December last year. Europe, with 12.6 million confirmed [...]
