War and hunger threaten to "consume" Sudan where hundreds of thousands of malnourished children are at risk of dying, as fighting between rival generals rages on, the United Nations warned Friday. The conflict between the army under General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commanded by Mohamed Hamdan Daglo broke out [...]
Seychelles is developing deeper ties with the United States in its quest to develop its aquaculture sector and harness the riches of the ocean for economic and social growth. The Minister for Fisheries and the Blue Economy, Jean Francois Ferrari, made the declaration at the opening of the first aquaculture fisheries forum to be held in the [...]
The issuance of the new Seychellois biometric passport for citizenship acquired under the Economic Investment Programme will be done if the applicant properly complies with all the requirements of the law at the time, said a top government official on Thursday. The statement was made by Seychelles Vice President Ahmed Afif in a Cabinet [...]
Families waded through water and cattle were loaded onto boats in a mass evacuation of around 100,000 people in Pakistan's Punjab province, officials said Wednesday. Several hundred villages and thousands of acres of cropland in the central province were inundated when the Sutlej river burst its banks on Sunday. "The flood waters came a couple [...]
Japan began releasing wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, prompting a furious China to ban all seafood imports from its neighbour. The start of the discharge of around 540 Olympic swimming pools' worth of water over several decades is a big step in decommissioning the still highly dangerous [...]
The Seychelles Breweries company wants to improve its sustainability by going fully green in the coming years, the managing director revealed on Wednesday. Yvonne Mwangi made the statement after meeting with the Seychelles President Wavel Ramkalawan at State House. She told reporters that the company has begun implementing its sustainability master plan. “We have a [...]
The Seychelles Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned the illegal firearms and terrorism case, which started on July 3rd, to October 3rd. The persons charged in the case are prominent businessman Mukesh Valabjhi and his wife Laura, a lawyer. Also charged are Leslie Benoiton – a senior officer in the Seychelles Defence Forces (SDF), Leopold Payet - [...]
Zimbabweans on Wednesday began voting in closely-watched presidential and legislative elections after a campaign tainted by a crackdown on the opposition, fears of vote rigging and public anger at the economic crisis. President Emmerson Mnangagwa, 80, who came to power after a coup that deposed late ruler Robert Mugabe in 2017 is seeking re-election. His [...]
China on Tuesday threw its weight behind plans to expand the loosely-defined BRICS club of large emerging economies, which is seeking to assert its political and economic clout on the global stage. The BRICS nations of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, which represent a quarter of the global economy, are meeting for three [...]
The Creative Seychelles Agency will host a Creole village during the 2023 Creole Festival from October 23 to 31 in Victoria, while the opening of the annual event will take place on Praslin, the second-largest island. In a press conference on Tuesday, detailing activities to be held during the Creole month, the agency's executive director, Emmanuel D'Offay, [...]