US President Joe Biden announced Tuesday he will seek re-election in 2024 and "finish the job," plunging at the record age of 80 into a ferocious campaign that could set up a rematch against Donald Trump. Launching his pitch in a video on the fourth anniversary of the day he began his 2020 challenge against [...]
On April 26, it will be exactly two and half years since Wavel Ramkalawan was sworn in as the President of Seychelles, representing the Linyon Demokratik Seselwa (Seychellois Democratic Union) party, which was formed through an alliance of the Seychelles National Party, led by Ramkalawan, and several smaller opposition parties. His accession was after 43 [...]
The production of eggs in Seychelles has been steadily increasing during the last 10 years but there are special conditions during the period of March to May, highly marked in April, that heavily affect egg production, especially this year. An agricultural officer in Seychelles, Jose Raul de Oca Brito, told SNA that there are many factors interacting [...]
Kenyan investigators on Tuesday exhumed 10 more bodies from mass graves linked to a starvation cult, bringing the total number of victims to 83, an AFP journalist at the scene said, as fears grow of the toll spiking even further. Police have spent days scouring the Shakahola forest near the coastal town of Malindi after [...]
Ethiopian Airlines is anticipating a second daily flight to Seychelles with the aim to boost the visibility of the island nation as a destination, Tourism Seychelles - the marketing arm of the Department of Tourism - said on Tuesday. The new local head of the airlines, Kassahun Terefa, met with Seychelles' principal secretary for tourism, [...]
Guinea-Bissau has become the first country outside of Europe to join an international agreement on government accountability, human rights and the environment, the United Nations announced on Tuesday. The Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters -- also known as the Aarhus Convention -- "protects every [...]
Construction starts on a detention facility that will allow the Seychelles Prison Services to manage different categories of inmates remanded into custody, with the laying of the first stones on Monday. Once fully completed, the facility will be held in separate units, male and female adults as well as male and female juvenile remandees awaiting their [...]
Seychellois aquaculture technicians and businesses investing in the sector in the island state are benefitting from training opportunities in Cyprus, according to a fisheries official. Twelve participants - six aquaculture technicians from the Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA) and six private sector candidates - are taking part in the training, which started in February and will [...]
Kenyan police resumed a grisly search Monday in a forest in the country's east where the bodies of 51 suspected cult members have been exhumed from shallow graves. Police said the search inland from Malindi was continuing not just for bodies but for possible survivors of a movement whose pastor reportedly told followers to starve [...]
At the entrance to the Majicavo slum on France's Indian Ocean territory Mayotte, which authorities are seeking to evacuate and demolish, a group gathered around a poster emblazoned with the French flag. "Every day it's this or that, they come from the town hall, or the police," said Fatima Youssuf, 55, who, like most of [...]
