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60,000 jobs coming under agenda 111 – Health Minister
Joy FM
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September 20, 2024
The Ghana Priority Infrastructure Projects (GPIP) popularly referred to as ‘Agenda 111 Hospitals’ Project will employ about 60,000 health personnel when completed and fully operational. Minister for Health Dr. Bernard Okoe-Boye who announced this...
Article 21 Extends To Foreign Citizen Facing Trial In India: Madras HC Stays Look Out Circular Against Seychelles Citizen, Permits His Travel
Live Law
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September 30, 2024
The Madras High Court recently stayed a lookout circular issued by the Central Bureau of Investigation against a Seychelles citizen. The court thus permitted the man to travel to Malaysia. Justice N Seshasayee noted that when Article 21 of the...
Drug trafficking: 2 Ugandans and 1 Seychellois man sentenced to 7 and 5 years in Seychelles' prison
Seychelles News Agency
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September 28, 2024
The Palais de Justice which holds the Supreme Court. (Seychelles News Agency) Photo license The Supreme Court of Seychelles has sentenced two Ugandan nationals to seven and five years imprisonment for the importation of an illegal substance and a...
Climate change is foremost challenge for humanity, says Seychelles' President
Seychelles News Agency
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September 26, 2024
Climate change remains the foremost challenge facing humanity, and failure to address its effects will devastate current and future generations, said Seychelles' President Wavel Ramkalawan in his address on Wednesday at the 79th United Nations...
How can PPPs transform Africa's pharma logistics sector?
Logistics Update Africa
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September 15, 2024
A recent study by MarkNtel Advisors indicates that the African pharmaceutical logistics market is set to undergo substantial expansion. The market is projected to experience a growth rate of around 5.13% CAGR from 2022 to 2027, largely due to...
Chinese Hospital Ship to offer free medical care in Cameroon
Cameroon Intelligence Report
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September 24, 2024
Chinese hospital ship Peace Ark will dock at the Port of Douala on October 7 and leave on October 14. The arrival, announced by the Ministry of Defense on Monday, is being carried out under “the highest instructions of the Head of State” as part...
Cuba and Seychelles, a long history of cooperation
Radio Habana Cuba
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September 24, 2024
President of the Seychelles by María Josefina Arce Wavel Rankalawan, President of the Seychelles, a country with which Cuba maintains cordial relations, described by the authorities of the African nation as an example of South-South cooperation,...
Strategic partnership between Seychelles and China praised at China 75th anniversary celebration
Seychelles News Agency
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September 20, 2024
Minister Ferrari and the Chinese ambassador to Seychelles in a celebration toast. (Seychelles Nation) Photo license China and Seychelles have forged profound friendship since the diplomatic ties were established 48 years ago and the two countries...
Tech-free ‘cloisters’ can help young minds
The Times
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Sir, I share Niall Ferguson’s concern about the catastrophic effect of AI upon cognitive development (“AI’s great brain robbery — and how universities can fight back”, weekend essay, Jul 5). Founding, in 2007, the UK’s only screen-free school, we...
Ghana to Export More Nurses to Barbados; Jamaica, Seychelles, and Others on the radar
The Chronicle News Online
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September 20, 2024
The Ministry of Health has announced that a third batch of Ghanaian nurses will be sent to Barbados by the end of October 2024 as part of a bilateral agreement between the two nations. This move comes as the country continues to produce more...
President Ramkalawan engages with Seychellois Medical Students in Cuba
The Sunday News
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September 20, 2024
The President of the Republic, Mr. Wavel Ramkalawan accompanied by the First Lady, Mrs. Linda Ramkalawan, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Tourism, Mr. Sylvestre Radegonde and the Seychelles' Ambassador to the United States and Permanent...
Quad Summit: Forging new alliances for health, security, and Sustainability in the Indo-Pacific
Financial Express
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The Quad Summit on Sunday delivered a series of impactful announcements, focusing on collaboration across critical sectors like health, maritime security, and technology in the Indo-Pacific region. Hosted by the US President Joe Biden in...
Quad leaders discuss health, clean energy; touch upon Ukraine, Gaza wars
India Today
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September 22, 2024
Leaders from Quad -- India, the US, Japan and Australia -- on Saturday (local time) discussed health and clean energy and expressed concerns over rising global tensions while making a reference to the Ukraine and Gaza wars. In a joint statement...
Díaz-Canel meets with President of the Republic of Seychelles
Cuban News Agency
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September 20, 2024
HAVANA, Cuba, Sep 18 (ACN) Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez met in this city with Mr. Wavel Ramkalawan, president of the Republic of Seychelles. Joining the head of state were Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and...
Jamaica, Seychelles, Germany and UK in talks with gov’t to r...
Modern Ghana
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The Minister of Health, Dr. Bernard Okoe-Boye has indicated that several countries are engaging government to recruit Ghanaian nurses. Speaking at a press briefing at the Ministry of Information in Accra on Wednesday, September 18, the Minister...
Small State, Big Stakes: The Maldives and Strategic Competition in the Indian Ocean
War on the Rocks
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July 14, 2025
Located at the crossroads of vital Indian Ocean shipping lanes linking the Middle East and Asia, the Maldives has emerged as an unlikely but increasingly important foothold in Indo-Pacific strategic rivalry. Despite having less than 600,000...
Government to spend $7.65bn to complete Agenda 111 projects – Health Minister
Joy FM
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September 18, 2024
The Minister of Health, Dr Bernard Okoe-Boye, says government will spend an amount of $7.65 billion to complete the Ghana Priority Health Infrastructure Projects, popularly referred to as "Agenda 111 projects" to provide quality healthcare across...
Presidents of Cuba and Seychelles evaluated commitments and joint perspectives
Diario Granma
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September 19, 2024
Photo: Estudios Revolución The fourth meeting between the presidents of Cuba and Seychelles in a year is one more reason to continue strengthening the historic relations between the two nations, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez told his counterpart from...
SADC PF committee calls for urgent health financing
Windhoek Observer
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Moses Magadza A statutory meeting of the Standing Committee on Human and Social Development and Special Programmes (HSDSP) of the SADC Parliamentary Forum began on 19 September 2024 in Johannesburg, South Africa, amid urgent calls for sustainable...
Top British and Irish golfers of all time
talkSPORT
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July 15, 2025
Golf was first played on the linksland of Scotland and the country is still referred to as the Home of Golf. In the 19th century, the sport was quickly taken up by England, Wales and Ireland and throughout the 20th century it expanded around the...