Israel kept pounding Hamas targets in Gaza, where entire districts lay in rubble Wednesday, as its soldiers found more victims five days after the Islamist militants' onslaught on its southern towns. The army said a "staggering 1,200" bodies had been discovered, mostly of unarmed civilians, while Gaza officials reported 1,055 people killed in Israel's withering [...]
Seychelles is gravely concerned by the recent attacks carried out in Israel and condemns all indiscriminate attacks on civilians in both Israel and Palestine, the Foreign Affairs Department said in a statement on Tuesday. "We send our deepest condolences to the families of innocent people who lost their lives and called for the immediate cessation [...]
Madagascar's outgoing president Andry Rajoelina launched his re-election campaign on Tuesday, promising "an orange wave" to thousands of supporters wearing his party colour who gathered in the capital, Antananarivo. Voters in the Indian Ocean island nation will elect a president on November 9 but the run-up to the poll has been marred by tensions after [...]
The French army said Tuesday it had begun withdrawing troops from Niger after being ordered out by the leaders of a coup that ousted the president and Paris ally. The move kicks off a complex and fraught process that Paris expects to be completed by the end of the year, drawing the curtain on another [...]
The three Seychellois who have been imprisoned in Egypt are healthy and being treated well, according to the newly accredited Ambassador of Egypt to Seychelles. Wael Nasr El-Din M. Attiya presented his credentials to the President of Seychelles, Wavel Ramkalawan, on Tuesday at State House. He told reporters that the three Seychellois prisoners have also [...]
A 14-year-old Seychellois windsurfer, Jules Kandasamy, won a silver medal at the 2023 PWA Youth & Junior Slalom World Cup, which took place in Alacati, Turkey, from October 3 to 8. Kandasamy was competing at the tournament for the second time and promised to do better this time. The President of Seychelles, Wavel Ramkalawan, has [...]
A mass funeral ceremony for around 300 earthquake victims was held Monday in rural western Afghanistan, as families remained trapped in the rubble of their ruined homes two days after high-magnitude tremors killed more than 2,000 people. In Siah Ab village, near the epicentre of Saturday's magnitude 6.3 quake followed by eight aftershocks, white-shrouded bodies [...]
At least 27 people have been killed after heavy rains caused a section of a hillside covered in precariously built houses to collapse in Cameroon's capital Yaounde. Rescuers were still searching for victims on Monday after the landslide happened in the district of Mbankolo, northwest of Yaounde, on Sunday evening. Landslides are frequent during the [...]
Israel imposed a total siege on the Gaza Strip Monday and cut off the water supply as it kept bombing targets in the crowded Palestinian enclave in response to the Hamas surprise assault it has likened to the 9/11 attacks. Reeling from the Islamist group's unprecedented ground, air and sea attacks, Israel has counted over [...]
Seychelles’ Ministry for Fisheries and Blue Economy has announced the launch of the first ever maritime maps and cartography exhibition due to open in the new Seychelles National Art Gallery in the capital of Victoria. The exhibition will start on November 7, titled “The Seychelles: A Journey through the History of Maps (1482-1830)”, which will [...]
