Joseph Boakai was sworn in Monday as Liberia's president after his election victory over former football star George Weah, with the challenge of tackling poverty and corruption. The 79-year-old narrowly beat former Ballon d'Or winner Weah in November's run-off poll with 50.64 percent of the votes to 49.36 percent. The investiture ceremony in parliament was [...]
Seychelles is pushing ahead with its plan to have a fully electric transport system in the future despite some delays, said the leader of the project. The E-mobility project, launched in November 2022, has faced delays especially with the search for people with suitable expertise to help with the project. According to Elvis Octave, the Global [...]
Seychelles' Cabinet of Ministers approved the new virtual assets law that will be submitted to the National Assembly, said the Vice President last week. Ahmed Afif said in a press conference that now that the Cabinet has given its stamp of approval "this will be presented to the National Assembly as soon as it reconvenes." The proposed regulatory framework for [...]
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Sunday urged Addis Ababa and Mogadishu to open dialogue to settle their dispute over Ethiopia's maritime deal with the breakaway region of Somaliland. Tensions in the Horn of Africa have escalated since landlocked Ethiopia struck a deal with Somaliland on January 1 that gives it much sought-after access [...]
Devyn Sharpe, an 18-year-old Seychellois-British entrepreneur, has embarked on his second year in the boat rental business in Seychelles with a green economy mindset. Born and raised in England to a Seychellois mother and British father, Sharpe settled full-time in Seychelles in July 2023. Since the age of 10, Sharpe developed an interest in the [...]
Japan on Saturday became the fifth nation to achieve a soft lunar landing, but said its "Moon Sniper" spacecraft was running out of power due to a solar battery problem. After a nail-biting 20-minute descent, space agency JAXA said its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) had touched down and communication had been established. But [...]
The government of war-torn Sudan has informed IGAD it is suspending its membership in the east Africa bloc, the foreign ministry loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said Saturday. Khartoum had already announced on Tuesday that it was freezing relations with IGAD for inviting paramilitary chief Mohamed Hamdan Daglo -- at war with Burhan [...]
Members of United Seychelles (US), the main opposition political party, held a protest on Saturday near the Cascade District Administration office on the main Mahe Island to show their dissatisfaction with the way that the government is handling the aftermath of the CCCL explosion disaster. The incident occurred during the early hours of December 7, [...]
Phinehas Bynum, a Seychellois-American classically trained singer and multi-instrumentalist, has said that opera was not initially a career he thought he would pursue, but that his childhood experiences played a big role in the fact that he now sings opera. The 33-year-old who lives in Minneapolis in the United States. He was recently on a [...]
The outgoing governor of the Central Bank of Seychelles, Caroline Abel, presented Seychelles’ President Wavel Ramkalawan with a copy of the Central Bank’s strategic plan for 2024 - 2028 during a visit the President made to the institution on Friday. Ramkalawan visited all the different sections of the Central Bank, and he described the work [...]
