The Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA) is to see a boost in fish aggregating devices (FADs) management capacity within local waters through the signing of an agreement with leading tuna fishing companies and tuna processors in the Indian Ocean. The agreement was signed on Monday to formalise and concretise the collaboration of SFA, Sustainable Indian Ocean Tuna Initiative (SIOTI), and [...]
Two people were killed Monday during protests in southern Senegal after the indictment and detention of opposition figure Ousmane Sonko, a presidential candidate for the 2024 election, the interior ministry said. Sonko, President Macky Sall's fiercest critic, on Monday was charged with fomenting insurrection and his party dissolved, prompting clashes between protesters and police. The [...]
Roger Mancienne is the Speaker of the Seychelles National Assembly, who was sworn in October 2020 as the fourth speaker of the country's parliament since the return of multi-party democracy in 1993. Mancienne, who is 75 years old, is also the leader of the Linyon Demokratik Seselwa (LDS-Seychellois Democratic Union) political party, which won a large victory in the [...]
The Ministry of Health has identified numerous areas of the health sector that needs improvements and one main concern is the high level of obesity in Seychelles. A two-day workshop was organised last week on the annual Health Sector Performance Report of 2022 in which areas of concern that have to be addressed were highlighted. [...]
Pakistan police on Monday combed through the bloody wreckage of a suicide blast that killed at least 44 people at an Islamist party's political gathering ahead of elections due later this year. Around 400 members of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F (JUI-F) party -- a key government coalition partner led by a firebrand cleric -- were waiting [...]
A time capsule launched by the Seychelles National Assembly as part of the celebrations of its 30th anniversary with messages of aspirations by the leaders of the executive and the parliament will be sealed on Monday, July 31. The messages inside the capsule which will be opened in 2053, another 30 years, included those of [...]
African leaders on Sunday gave the junta in Niger one week to cede power or face the possible use of force, and slapped financial sanctions on the putschists, after the latest coup in the jihadist-plagued Sahel region raised alarm on the continent and in the West. In the third coup in as many years to [...]
The Central African Republic began voting on Sunday in a referendum on a new constitution that would allow President Faustin-Archange Touadera to seek a third term in a country which has endured several coups. In 2020 Touadera won a second term through to 2025, after a vote interrupted by several incursions by armed rebel groups, [...]
An exhibition called "Forgotten Saints," where the artist chose to work on photographs of slaves, has opened at the Eden Art Gallery on Eden Island and is expected to tour Africa. There are 33 works on display produced by veteran artist Emmanual D'Offay, who sees himself as a slave activist who denounces slavery for all its atrocities. [...]
The African Union demanded Niger's military "return to their barracks and restore constitutional authority" within 15 days as the EU intensified pressure on the coup leaders Saturday by suspending security cooperation with the jihadist-hit country. General Abdourahamane Tiani, head of the Presidential Guard since 2011, appeared on state television on Friday to declare himself the [...]
