Somalia is facing a "very alarming" situation after more than four years of drought have devastated livestock many people depend upon, a top UN official said on Tuesday. The United Nations has warned that the Horn of Africa nation is on the brink of famine for the second time in just over a decade, with [...]
The mud crab population in Seychelles is being assessed for the first time in a one-year study that kicked off in September, said a top official of the Seychelles Fishing Authority. The head of the aquaculture department at SFA, Aubrey Lesperance, said that the authority wants to establish "the population and abundance of the species, to better understand it as [...]
The Moscow organised votes in four occupied regions in Ukraine on annexation by Russia are a "sham" and "a blatant violation of international law," NATO's chief Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday. Stoltenberg tweeted that he spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky "and made clear that NATO Allies are unwavering in our support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and [...]
The United Nations said Tuesday almost 6,000 Congolese refugees who fled to Zambia in 2017 have returned home since the launch of a voluntary repatriation scheme last year. Thousands of people crossed into Zambia from the Democratic Republic of Congo five years ago, fleeing fighting between government soldiers and militia groups, as well as inter-ethnic [...]
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Seychelles Human Rights Commission, the Ombudsman and the Bar Association of Seychelles to lodge a formal motion for the recusal of the panel hearing a petition lodged by the three entities. The three institutions lodged a joint petition with the Constitutional Court on September 13, 2022, asking that the constitutionality [...]
The Seychelles Blue Carbon Roadmap report which highlights opportunities and where the island nation should be headed in this field was handed to the government on Monday. Developed by the James Michel Foundation, created by the former president of the country, in collaboration with Deakin University from Australia, the Seychelles Blue Carbon Roadmap was financed [...]
Officials described a "humanitarian catastrophe" in Haiti to the UN Security Council Monday, as the nation hits "new levels of desperation" after two weeks of violence and attacks on food aid warehouses. Protests and looting have rocked the already unstable country since September 11, when Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced a fuel price hike; he [...]
Twenty years after Le Joola ferry sank, the Senegalese town where half of the nearly 1,900 dead lived paid tribute on Monday to those killed in the disaster described as a "wound that never heals". When news spread that the vessel had capsized on the night of September 26, 2002, no one in the southern [...]
Local telecommunications company, Cable and Wireless Seychelles (CWS), has as of Monday morning begun to sell its shares to the public to increase its shareholder base and raise approximately $4.3 million. As of September 26, Cable and Wireless Seychelles, one of the oldest telecoms firms on the island, is listed on the MERJ Exchange based [...]
The Eastern and Southern Africa Trade Development Bank (TDB) is looking to boost the housing and health care sectors among others in the Seychelles, a top official said on Monday. The president of the TDB, Admassu Tadasse, made the statement to the press after a courtesy call on President Wavel Ramkalawan at State House. "We [...]
