KEEP SEYCHELLES SAFE SAYS TOURISM MINISTER, WE DEPEND ON TOURISTS As the murder trial on Mauritius is now underway, where two suspects are standing trial over allegations of having killed British tourist Michaela McAreavey in her hotel room, the Seychelles tourism establishment left no opportunity pass last week and this week to publicly promote the [...]
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29 May
Sporadic violence continues into Monday as 30 rioters charged in Zanzibar court
FRESH CHURCH BURNING ON ZANZIBAR AS RIOTERS CHARGED IN COURT At least thirty rioters were charged yesterday in courts of law in Zanzibar, following their arrest over the weekend, when mobs incited by sectarian talk stormed two Christian churches and burned them down. More are expected to appear in court today and though several were [...]
28 May
Blast shakes Nairobi’s Moi Avenue, 27 injured and no cause confirmed as yet
NAIROBI BLAST LEAVES CITY SHAKEN According to a phoned in report, while on the road in Kenya, did just after 1 p.m. today an explosion take place in a building along Moi Avenue in the centre of Nairobi, injuring at least 27 people who were, according to the Nairobi based source, admitted to the Kenyatta [...]
28 May
Zanzibar clashes see two churches burnt and running battles between Islamic radicals and security forces
ZANZIBAR RADICALS OPPOSED TO UNION WITH MAINLAND CAUSE WEEKEND CHAOS In what has been described as acts of frenzied madness have radical Islamists attacked at least two churches in Zanzibar over the weekend, setting them on fire while engaging in running battles with security forces, which were rushed to the scene to deal with the [...]
28 May
Cat Cocos celebrates 5th anniversary of service between Mahe and Praslin
INTER ISLAND FERRY TURNS FIVE (The Cat Cocos as seen during a past visit to the Seychelles) The high speed ferry between the Seychelles main island of Mahe to the archipelagos second island Praslin over the weekend celebrated 5 years in operations, five years of commercial success and five years of taking tourists and Seychellois [...]
28 May
Haller Park Mombasa – 167.000 visitors and counting
HALLER PARK BAMBURI 167.000 VISITORS IN 2011 AND COUNTING (The entrance of the Bamburi based Haller Park north of Mombasa) Mombasas Haller Park has since its inception in the late 1970s, when the Bamburi Cement quarries looked like moonscapes along the Mombasa Bamburi road, extensive spaces bare of any vegetation at all, been transformed into [...]
28 May
Weekly roundup of news from Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean islands, Fourth edition May 2012
AVIATION, TOURISM AND CONSERVATION NEWS from Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean islands. A weekly roundup of breaking news, reports, travel stories and opinions by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Thome You can get your daily breaking news updates instantly via Twitter by following @whthome, join me on www.facebook.com/WolfgangHThome where the articles also cross load or [...]
28 May
Rwanda Tourism counting down towards Kwita Izina 2012
KWITA IZINA SET FOR SATURDAY 16TH JUNE The clock is now ticking down relentlessly towards the 08th edition of Kwita Izina, the Rwandan festival of the naming the young born mountain gorillas, which is taking place in less than three weeks time. Conservation friends from across Eastern Africa and in fact the entire world are [...]
27 May
KWS concludes elephant containment activities in the Taita – Taveta area …
KENYA WILDLIFE SERVICE DRIVES UP TO 1.000 ELEPHANT INTO TAITA HILLS AND TSAVO A chance meeting with Samuel M. Rukaria, Community Warden for the Taita Hills area, allowed to get some intriguing insights of the challenges KWS and the communities living near the park boundaries of Tsavo East, Tsave West and the Taita Hills Conservancy [...]
27 May
Kampala Serena goes Italian
KAMPALA SERENA SET FOR ITALIAN WEEK The Explorer Restaurant at the Kampala Serena will be the venue for a week of Italian cuisine, wine tasting and even cookery classes with Chef Fabrizio Mercuri, who is visiting the Kampala Serena to promote his way of presenting Italian dishes. His menu creations during the week of 04th [...]
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