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The number of active social media users has risen to more than 5 billion, or about 62.3 percent of humanity, according to a study published Wednesday. The number rose 5.6 percent last year, outpacing the 0.9 percent increase in the world's population, said the report by media monitoring company Meltwater and social media agency We [...]

Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in jail on a graft charge, a day after he was given a 10-year prison term in verdicts handed down just a week before national elections. Khan and his wife were found guilty of graft in a case involving gifts he received while [...]

President Wavel Ramkalawan expressed pride after Seychelles remained the top scorer in the Sub-Saharan Africa region and moved up to 20th place globally on the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) 2023 released on Tuesday. According to State House, Ramkalawan said, "We are extremely proud. This displays the commitment of this administration to ensuring that transparency and [...]

The African Union on Tuesday expressed "deep regret" over the decision by the military regimes in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger to withdraw from the West African bloc ECOWAS. The AU said its commission president, Moussa Faki Mahamat, "calls on regional leaders to intensify the dialogue between the ECOWAS leadership and the three aforementioned countries", [...]

From trash-strewn pavements to street vendors packing meals in polystyrene containers, plastic waste is a constant menace in the urban landscape of Lagos, Nigeria's economic capital and the continent's most populous city. That image could soon change if the local Lagos State government manages to implement its recent ambitious ban on the use of polystyrene [...]

Seychelles' Island Development Company (IDC), a state-owned company, is set to produce black tiger prawns this year and the first batches are expected to be on the market by October or November, said a top official. The deputy chief executive of IDC, Christian Lionnet, told reporters last week that this kind of prawns are very susceptible to [...]

Seychelles remains the top scorer in the Sub-Saharan Africa region and has improved its ranking by one point from 70 to 71 on the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) 2023 released on Tuesday. The island nation scored 71 points out of 100 and climbed up three spots on the global ranking moving up to 20th position out [...]