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Travel Update: Seychelles removes Southern African countries from restricted travel list
Visitors from South Africa and other Southern African countries will once again be able to travel to the paradise islands of the Seychelles as of Thursday, 6 January 2022, the country’s Ministry of Health has announced, also advising the introduction of additional considerations for incoming travellers with proof of past recent inf… read more
Resource Parks and Gardens to prosecute mandate
The Department of Parks and Gardens yesterday received some pieces of equipment from its sector ministry, the Ministry for Local Government, Decentralization and Rural Development (MLGDRD), to augment the existing equipment to facilitate its revitalisation.
The equipment included computers, mowing machines, drive mowers, chainsaw ma… read more
Travel ban lifted at Mauritius
Since Friday 7 January 2022, the Covid-19 travel ban imposed by the Republic of Mauritius on the Republic of South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia has been lifted and commercial passenger flights from these countries to Mauritius already resumed.
Travellers are reques… read more
Namibia hails Germany's travel risk status decision
As of 4 January, all countries which appeared on Germany's "virus variant areas list" were moved to its high-risk list, that country's Robert Koch Institute announced. Namibia is included among the lists of countries regarded as high-risk areas. Others are Botswana, eSwatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe a… read more
U.S.$36 Million to support communities around Rwanda's National Parks
Rwanda is set to host the regional headquarters of Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) following a presidential order signed by President Paul Kagame and issued in the national gazette.
Founded in 1895, Wildlife Conservation Society is an NGO with headquarters in New York with the aim to conserve the world's largest wildlife … read more
Covid-19: South Africa has introduced changes to its Adjusted Alert Level 1 lockdown regulations
South Africa i mplemented a five-level Covid-19 alert system in … read more
Namibia: Rosh Pinah Aussenkehr road closed
Namibia's Road Authority (RA), whose core business is to construct and maintain the country's road sector, has announced that a section on the Rosh Pinah <> … read more
Morocco's tough Covid restrictions hammer tourism sector
Morocco shut its borders in late November and will only reopen them at the end of January. It has also banned new year celebrations and is enforcing its vaccine pass requirements more strictly in response to the Omicron variant of the coronavirus.
"These restrictions are unjust… read more
Discover Khayelitsha, one of South Africa's vibrant townships
Khayelitsha -- which means "new home" in Xhosa (one of South Africa's 11 official languages) -- is the largest township in Cape Town. In South Africa, townships are the often underdeveloped, racially segregated urban areas that, from the late 19th century until the end of apartheid, were reserved for "nonwhites."
Although Kha… read more
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