Category: News
Malawi opposition leader wins presidential vote re-run
Malawi's opposition leader Lazarus Chakwera won this week's presidential election re-run with 58.57 percent of the vote, the electoral commission said [...]
Study shows sooty tern flying from Seychelles to Thailand
Juvenile sooty terns have been recorded flying from the eastern coast of Africa to off the coasts of Myanmar and Thailand in the search for food, data [...]
COVID cases in Seychelles rise to 69; no plan to close borders
Three foreign nationals and seven more mariners tested positive for COVID-19 in Seychelles, bringing the total of active cases to 69, a top healt [...]
Madagascar’s ‘Colosseum’ sparks outrage
On the highest hill overlooking Madagascar's capital Antananarivo, on the site of a sacred pool and within the grounds of a royal palace, an uncanny p [...]
COVID-19 restrictions delaying Seychelles’ major projects, including La Gogue Dam
The Public Utilities Corporation of Seychelles is raising concerns over the implications that the COVID-19 pandemic is having on its four major nation [...]
50 more new fishing crew members in Seychelles test positive for COVID-19, bringing total to 59
Fifty more crew members of the Spanish fleet fishing tuna in the Seychelles' waters have tested positive for COVID-19 bringing the total to 59, the De [...]
Global action required to counter COVID’s economic toll, Seychelles’ president tells Commonwealth leaders
Global action is required to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and its adverse economic impacts, especially on the more vulnerable countries, President [...]
Former Burundi president to be buried in state funeral
Thousands of Burundians on Friday lined the road to the capital Gitega as the body of former president Pierre Nkurunziza was escorted under heavy secu [...]
President: 9 new cases of COVID-19 in Seychelles; Chief Justice resigns
Nine new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Seychelles, President Danny Faure said Thursday during a live press conference.
Faure effectively an [...]
DR Congo declares end to Ebola epidemic in east
DR Congo on Thursday officially declared an end to an Ebola epidemic that broke out in the east of the troubled country two years ago and went on to c [...]