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Everyone is always looking for that perfect island getaway and most travelers are seeking a destination that offers sun and fun, excellent food and nightlife options, and opportunities for some self-care and pampering. If these are things that motivate your travel decisions, then look no further than the Seychelles. If you are willing to go a […]
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Many people have been killed since clashes began on Monday. Scores too had been killed in the run up to the vote as protestors marched against Conde's bid for a third term.
[Government of Mauritius] The World Bank has classified Mauritius as a high-income country for the first time, joining Seychelles as the second high-income economy in Africa. The institution classifies the world's economies into four income groups- high, upper-middle, lower-middle, and low. This is based on Gross National Income (GNI) per capita (current US$), calculated using the Atlas method. The classification is updated each year on the first of July based on the previous year's national account information and using data provi
[Lesotho Times] Windhoek -- Members of Parliament who belong to the Standing Committee on Trade, Industry, Finance and Investment (TIFI) of the SADC Parliamentary Forum are calling for concerted and coordinated action towards macroeconomic convergence within the SADC Region.
Luanda — The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Member States who want to reopen the educational establishments should establish the minimal and basic requirement of prevention including the availability of hygiene, water and sanitation.
This is one of the recommendations from the organization report that ANGOP had access Sunday appealing the members who want to reopen the school classes to have hygiene and screening products as well as to add the teaching staff to ease the school rooms.
The mandatory use of masks, the hygiene and disinfection of the school rooms and common areas having social distance inside the school rooms and in the school bus, are also part of the organization recommendation.
Regarding to this situation, Angola has suspended school classes since last March in the framework of the first Provisional Legislative Presidential Decree reinforced on 25 April with the first Decree of the national State of Emergency in the country history.
Found in 1992, SADC is an organization created and supported by the Southern African countries aiming to promote the socioeconomic, political and security cooperation at the level of its members as well as to foster the regional integration to reach peace, stability and wealth.
May 30: Mauritius ends lockdown
\tMauritius’ lockdown will be lifted midnight Saturday, May 30 per Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth’s announcement on Friday.
Confirmed cases = 335
Number of deaths = 10
Recoveries = 322
Active cases = 3
\tAll stats valid as at May 30, 2020 07:00 GMT
May 12: Mauritius virus-free after total recoveries
\tMauritius declared total recoveries from coronavirus infections as of May 11, 2020.
May 11 marked the fifteenth consecutive day that the no new case was recorded in the country.
May 4: No new case in 8 days amid lockdown extension
\tMauritius recorded no new COVID-19 cases for the past eight days, according to statistics provided by the National Communication Committee on Monday 4 May.
The sanitary curfew put in place on March 20, and which should have ended today, has been extended until June 1, Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth announced last Friday.
There are now more than over 70,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the pandemic.
According to the latest data by the John Hopkins University and Africa Center for Disease Control on COVID-19 in Africa, the breakdown remains fluid as countries confirm cases as and when.
There is no virus-free country in Africa as of May 13.
We shall keep updating this list largely sourced from the John Hopkins University tallies, Africa CDC and from official government data.
SUGGESTED READING: Africa’s COVID-19 deaths pass 1,000 mark
Major African stats: May 16 at 7:30 GMT:
\t
\t\tConfirmed cases = 78,280
\t\tNumber of deaths = 2,624
\t\tRecoveries = 29,245
\t\tActive cases = 46,411
\t\tInfected countries = 54
Countries in alphabetical order
\t\tAlgeria – 6,629
\t\tAngola – 48
\t\tBenin – 339
\t\tBotswana – 24
\t\tBurkina Faso – 780
\t\tBurundi – 15
\t\tCameroon – 3,105
\t\tCape Verde – 326
\t\tCentral African Republic – 301
\t\tChad – 428
\t\tComoros – 11
\t\tCongo-Brazzaville – 391
\t\tDR Congo – 1,298
\t\tDjibouti – 1,309
\t\tEgypt – 11,228
\t\tEquatorial Guinea – 594
\t\tEritrea – 39
\t\tEswatini – 190
\t\tEthiopia – 287
\t\tGabon – 1,209
\t\t(The) Gambia – 23
\t\tGhana – 5,638
\t\tGuinea – 2,473
\t\tGuinea-Bissau – 913
\t\tIvory Coast – 2,017
\t\tKenya – 781
\t\tLesotho – 1
\t\tLiberia – 219
\t\tLibya – 64
\t\tMadagascar – 238
\t\tMalawi – 63
\t\tMali – 806
\t\tMauritania – 29
\t\tMauritius – 332
\t\tMorocco – 6,652
\t\tMozambique – 119
\t\tNamibia – 16
\t\tNiger – 885
\t\tNigeria- 5,450
\t\tRwanda – 287
\t\tSao Tome and Principe – 235
\t\tSenegal – 2,310
\t\tSeychelles – 11
\t\tSierra Leone – 447
\t\tSomalia – 1,284
\t\tSouth Africa – 13,524
\t\tSouth Sudan – 236
\t\tSudan – 1,964
\t\tTanzania – 509
\t\tTogo – 263
\t\tTunisia – 1,035
\t\tUganda – 203
\t\tZambia – 654
\t\tZimbabwe – 42
SUGGESTED READING: rolling coverage of the coronavirus outbreak in Africa II
The ravaging Covid-19 pandemic has severely affected the world and football was not spared as the sport has been disrupted with lockdown restrictions employed almost everywhere to tame the situation.
As a way to help national football associations - including Rwanda football association - cope with the effects of the pandemic, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has mobilised a $10.8 million relief fund that will be extended to its members.
The decision was communicated during a video conference CAF meeting on Thursday, May 28, when the Emergency Committee approved the immediate distribution of financial grants to 54 affiliated member associations.
\"A total of $10.8 million will be offered to the 54 member associations on the continent as part of a relief plan to ease the financial burden on the African football community during these unprecedented times,\" reads part of the statement.
Across the continent, many football leagues were suspended or cancelled for the 2019-20 season, while some were prematurely ended and titles awarded to the leaders, which was also applied with Rwanda Premier League where APR were crowned champions last week.
There are now more than over 590,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the pandemic.
According to the latest data by the John Hopkins University and Africa Center for Disease Control on COVID-19 in Africa, the breakdown remains fluid as countries confirm cases as and when. As of May 13, every African country had recorded an infection, the last being Lesotho.
SUGGESTED READING: Africa’s COVID-19 deaths pass 100,000 mark
Major African stats: July 16 at 9:00 GMT:
Confirmed cases = 643,679
Active cases = 296,901
Recoveries = 332,789
Number of deaths = 13,989
Algeria – 20,770
Angola – 576
Benin – 1,378
Botswana – 399
Burkina Faso – 1,038
Burundi – 269
Cameroon – 15,173
Cape Verde – 1,837
Central African Republic – 4,362
Chad – 885
Comoros – 321
Congo-Brazzaville – 2,222
DR Congo – 8,163
Djibouti – 4,985
Egypt – 84,843
Equatorial Guinea – 3,071
Eritrea – 232
Eswatini – 1,489
Ethiopia – 8,181
Gabon – 6,121
(The) Gambia – 64
Ghana – 25,430
Guinea – 6,276
Guinea-Bissau – 1,842
Ivory Coast – 13,403
Kenya – 11,252
Lesotho – 256
Liberia – 1,056
Libya – 1,589
Madagascar – 5,605
Malawi – 2,614
Mali – 2,433
Mauritania – 5,564
Mauritius – 343
Morocco – 16,262
Mozambique – 1,330
Namibia – 960
Niger – 1,100
Nigeria- 34,259
Rwanda – 1,435
Sao Tome and Principe – 737
Senegal – 8,369
Seychelles – 100
Sierra Leone – 1,668
Somalia – 3,083
South Africa – 311,049
South Sudan – 2,153
Sudan – 10,527
Tanzania – 509
Togo – 740
Tunisia – 1,319
Uganda – 1,043
Zambia – 1,895
Zimbabwe – 1,089
In its new report titled Out of the blue: The value of seagrasses to the environment and to people, launched on World Oceans Day on June 8, Unep blames these unsustainable activities for a deteriorating coastal ecosystem, a decline in coastal productivity, and affected certain supportive functions performed by the marine plant leading up to loss of critical fisheries habitat.
Seagrass ecosystems are biologically rich and highly productive, providing valuable nursery habitats to more than 20 per cent of the world’s largest 25 fisheries and filtering pathogens, bacteria, and pollution out of seawater.
For example, it is estimated that seagrasses covering an area of seven square kilometres of Gazi Bay at the Diani-Chale Marine National Reserve, Kenya, comprise of a total carbon stock of 620,000 Mg, with a monetary value estimated at $19 million in regulated global climate at a global scale.
UNEP said new data suggest that seagrasses are among the least protected coastal habitats.
The Unep World Conservation Monitoring Centre, said it had found in its most recent census that an estimated seven percent of seagrass habitat is being lost worldwide each year.
Wilbert J. LeMelle, Sr., was a scholar, development specialist, and ambassador to Kenya and the Republic of Seychelles between 1977 and 1980. In both his academic and diplomatic work, LeMelle urged the United States to become more engaged in Africa, focusing on economic development and human rights issues.
Born in Louisiana, LeMelle initially sought to become a Catholic priest and earned both a BA and an MA degree at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans before becoming an instructor of history at Grambling State University in Grambling, Louisiana in 1956. After being drafted into the U.S. Army in 1957, he returned to graduate study and earned a PhD in international relations at the University of Denver (Colorado) in 1963. LeMelle taught in Boston (Massachusetts) University’s prestigious African Studies program until being hired as a development specialist with the Ford Foundation.
Through positions with the Ford Foundation, LeMelle traveled and worked in numerous regions of Africa, ultimately becoming Deputy Director of the Middle East and Africa program by 1976. Ford Foundation projects focused on agricultural development, expanding African universities, and democratic leadership development in various regions across the continent. LeMelle helped these programs support civil rights reforms in African nations just emerging from European colonialism. He also worked closely with formal U.S. aid programs and other international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Africa.
On May 11, 1977, President Jimmy Carter nominated LeMelle to the joint ambassadorship of Kenya and the Seychelles. After U.S. Senate confirmation, LeMelle traveled to Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, and presented his credentials on October 1, 1977.
Kenya was in a state of transition, then led by President Jomo Kenyatta who had engineered a successful political independence movement against the British in 1963. LeMelle’s deep ties in the region and his ability to speak Swahili (along with six other languages) helped him establish a
President Hage Geingob has lashed back at the stinging criticism levelled against his administration when it comes to fighting corruption in the public sector.
While delivering his state of the nation address yesterday in the National Assembly, the head of state said his administration has made significant accomplishments in the fight against corruption and reducing public expenditure at record levels.
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\"We launched investigations into alleged irregularities in the contracts for the National Oil Storage Facility and Neckartal Dam, which exposed government to currency fluctuations,\" Geingob told parliament.
In light of ongoing government measures to reduce public expenditure, Geingob said reforms were undertaken to eliminate wastage, with respect to the conditions of service and benefits for public office bearers.
Geingob attributed this to the introduction of a Public Performance Management System, legislative reforms to strengthen accountability and transparency and aforementioned investigations launched into public tender said the Whistle Blower and Witness Protection Acts would be operationalised during this term, as additional measures to strengthen the fight against corruption.
There are now more than over 100,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the pandemic.
As of May 13, every African country had recorded an infection, the last being Lesotho.
Major African stats: May 29 at 7:00 GMT:
\t\tConfirmed cases = 129.452
\t\tNumber of deaths = 3,792
\t\tRecoveries = 53,400
\t\tActive cases = 72,260
\t\tAlgeria – 8,997
\t\tAngola – 74
\t\tBenin – 210
\t\tBotswana – 35
\t\tBurkina Faso – 847
\t\tBurundi – 42
\t\tCameroon – 5,436
\t\tCape Verde – 390
\t\tCentral African Republic – 755
\t\tChad – 726
\t\tComoros – 87
\t\tCongo-Brazzaville – 571
\t\tDR Congo – 2,660
\t\tDjibouti – 2,914
\t\tEgypt – 20,793
\t\tEquatorial Guinea – 1,043
\t\tEswatini – 279
\t\tEthiopia – 831
\t\tGabon – 2,431
\t\t(The) Gambia – 25
\t\tGhana – 7,303
\t\tGuinea – 3,553
\t\tGuinea-Bissau – 1,195
\t\tIvory Coast – 2,641
\t\tKenya – 1,618
\t\tLesotho – 2
\t\tLiberia – 269
\t\tLibya – 105
\t\tMadagascar – 656
\t\tMalawi – 203
\t\tMali – 1,194
\t\tMauritania – 346
\t\tMauritius – 334
\t\tMorocco – 7,643
\t\tMozambique – 233
\t\tNamibia – 22
\t\tNiger – 955
\t\tNigeria – 8,915
\t\tRwanda – 349
\t\tSao Tome and Principe – 458
\t\tSenegal – 3,348
\t\tSierra Leone – 812
\t\tSomalia – 1,828
\t\tSouth Africa – 27,403
\t\tSouth Sudan – 994
\t\tSudan – 4,346
\t\tTogo – 422
\t\tTunisia – 1,068
\t\tUganda – 317
\t\tZambia – 1,057
\t\tZimbabwe – 149
There are now more than over 730,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the pandemic.
Major African stats: July 21 at 7:30 GMT:
Confirmed cases = 736,587
Active cases = 331,849
Recoveries = 389,314
Number of deaths = 15,424
Algeria – 23,691
Angola – 749
Benin – 1,602
Botswana – 522
Burkina Faso – 1,065
Burundi – 322
Cameroon – 16,157
Cape Verde – 2,071
Central African Republic – 4,548
Chad – 889
Comoros – 334
Congo-Brazzaville – 2,851
DR Congo – 8,443
Djibouti – 5,020
Egypt – 88,405
Eritrea – 251
Eswatini – 1,826
Ethiopia – 10,207
Gabon – 6,433
(The) Gambia – 112
Ghana – 28,430
Guinea – 6,590
Guinea-Bissau – 1,949
Ivory Coast – 14,312
Kenya – 13,771
Lesotho – 359
Liberia – 1,107
Libya – 1,980
Madagascar – 7,153
Malawi – 2,992
Mali – 2,475
Mauritania – 5,923
Morocco – 17,562
Mozambique – 1,507
Namibia – 1,344
Niger – 1,105
Nigeria- 37,225
Rwanda – 1,629
Sao Tome and Principe – 746
Senegal – 8,948
Seychelles – 108
Sierra Leone – 1,711
Somalia – 3,130
South Africa – 373,628
South Sudan – 2,211
Sudan – 10,992
Togo – 783
Tunisia – 1,381
Uganda – 1,069
Zambia – 3,326
Zimbabwe – 1,713
There are now more than over 290,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the pandemic.
Major African stats: June 21 at 8:30 GMT:
\t\tConfirmed cases = 297,112
\t\tActive cases = 146,571
\t\tRecoveries = 142,622
\t\tNumber of deaths = 7,919
\t\tAlgeria – 11,631
\t\tAngola – 176
\t\tBenin – 650
\t\tBotswana – 89
\t\tBurkina Faso – 901
\t\tBurundi – 104
\t\tCameroon – 11,610
\t\tCape Verde – 863
\t\tCentral African Republic – 2,686
\t\tChad – 858
\t\tComoros – 247
\t\tCongo-Brazzaville – 883
\t\tDR Congo – 5,672
\t\tDjibouti – 4,565
\t\tEgypt – 53,758
\t\tEquatorial Guinea – 1,664
\t\tEritrea – 143
\t\tEswatini – 627
\t\tEthiopia – 4,469
\t\tGabon – 4,428
\t\t(The) Gambia – 37
\t\tGhana – 13,717
\t\tGuinea – 4,960
\t\tGuinea-Bissau – 1,541
\t\tIvory Coast – 7,276
\t\tKenya – 4,478
\t\tLesotho – 4
\t\tLiberia – 601
\t\tLibya – 544
\t\tMadagascar – 1,503
\t\tMalawi – 620
\t\tMali – 1,933
\t\tMauritania – 2,813
\t\tMauritius – 337
\t\tMorocco – 9,839
\t\tMozambique – 688
\t\tNamibia – 46
\t\tNiger – 1,035
\t\tNigeria- 19,808
\t\tRwanda – 702
\t\tSao Tome and Principe – 698
\t\tSenegal – 5,783
\t\tSierra Leone – 1,309
\t\tSomalia – 2,755
\t\tSouth Africa – 92,681
\t\tSouth Sudan – 1,882
\t\tSudan – 8,580
\t\tTogo – 561
\t\tTunisia – 1,156
\t\tUganda – 763
\t\tZambia – 1,430
\t\tZimbabwe – 479
