Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza has died of heart failure, the government said Tuesday, just months before he was to step down after 15 turbulent years at the head of the troubled nation. Nkurunziza, 55, first began to feel unwell after attending a volleyball match on Saturday, and appeared to be improving until he took a [...]
People in Seychelles are being advised to wear face masks as a preventative measure against COVID-19 in areas where social distancing cannot be practised, a high official said Tuesday. The Public Health Commissioner, Jude Gedeon, told a press conference that the decision comes after he and his team have received concerns from businesses having problems [...]
North Korea is severing all official communication links with the South, it announced Tuesday in a move analysts said was aimed at manufacturing a crisis on the divided peninsula. Since last week the North has issued a series of vitriolic denunciations of the South over activists sending anti-Pyongyang leaflets over the border -- something defectors [...]
The four main political parties in Seychelles have accepted the October dates proposed by the Electoral Commission for the presidential election. The mandate of the incumbent, President Danny Faure, will expire at the end of October and the Commission has set provisional dates of October 22, 23 and 24 for the election. The ruling party, [...]
South Africa's coronavirus deaths passed 1,000 on Monday and infections spiked to over 50,000 just a week after the continent's worst-hit country further eased lockdown restrictions, official statistics showed. The number of detected infections was 50,879 -- the worst in Africa. However, South Africa ranks second in terms of deaths at 1,080 after Egypt. The [...]
The number of coronavirus infections globally topped seven million on Monday as deaths mounted in Latin America, but New Zealand's declaration of victory against the pandemic offered some hope for the rest of the world. Europe also continued to emerge from its lockdown, with Pope Francis proclaiming that the worst was over in Italy although [...]
Seychelles has received a second consignment of critical medicines from India to use for common ailments, the Indian High Commission said on Sunday. The consignment, which arrived on board Indian navy ship Kesari, included medicines which cater for ailments like high blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, cancer and other cardiovascular diseases. The High Commission said that [...]
Air Seychelles plans to resume flights to Tel Aviv on July 16, said the airline's top official, the first route to re-open following a near total shut-down of flights due to COVID-19. The national carrier suspended its flights to Tel Aviv, Israel, in March and to its three regional routes -- Mauritius, Mumbai and Johannesburg [...]
Calling for racial justice, protesters rallied across Europe Sunday, joining a wave of demonstrations sparked by the death of African American George Floyd at the hands of US police. A video of the incident with Floyd pleading for his life in Minneapolis as a white police officer knelt on his neck has sparked protests worldwide, [...]
Taking a knee, banging drums and ignoring social distancing measures, outraged protesters from Sydney to London on Saturday kicked off a weekend of global rallies against racism and police brutality. The death at police hands of George Floyd, an unarmed black man in the US state of Minnesota, brought tens of thousands out onto the [...]
