Sri Lanka's president was set to appoint a new cabinet Monday as security forces braced for possible violence with more protests expected against worsening shortages of food, fuel and medicines. Twenty-six ministers in the cabinet -- all members except President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his elder brother Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa -- submitted letters of resignation [...]
A newly appointed Justice of the Court of Appeal of Seychelles has said that rising above setbacks and working towards set goals is important in overcoming challenges one can face along a career path. Seychellois judge Samia Andre took the oath of allegiance and the judicial oath before Seychelles' President Wavel Ramkalawan in a short [...]
The European Parliament on Thursday passed a symbolic vote demanding a total ban on all Russian energy imports into the EU, as member states closed in on narrower sanctions against Russian coal. MEPs voted 513 in favour, with 22 against and 19 abstentions, of an "immediate" ban on Russian coal, gas and oil, as well [...]
A census to gather data on the population, households and voters in Seychelles will start on April 22, said the deputy chief executive of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Tuesday. The census -- which is done every 10 years -- was scheduled for 2020 but due to the COVID-19 pandemic it was pushed to [...]
Security forces and their allies in a disputed part of conflict-hit northern Ethiopia committed abuses against Tigrayans that amounted to war crimes and crimes against humanity, two rights groups said Wednesday. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tigrayan civilians had been targeted in "a relentless campaign of ethnic cleansing" in the long-contested western [...]
A military court in Burkina Faso on Wednesday handed down a life prison term to former president Blaise Compaore over the 1987 assassination of revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara. Applause erupted in the courtroom as the long-awaited verdict was read out, bringing the curtain down on a case that has afflicted the impoverished and volatile state [...]
Seychelles has signed an agreement with the United Arab Emirates to modernise and transform its public service, the finance ministry said on Wednesday. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed by Seychellois Minister of Investment, Entrepreneurship and Industry, Devika Vidot and Mohammad Abdullah Al Gergawi, Minister of Cabinet Affairs of the UAE. The signing ceremony took [...]
Conservation team members on Fregate, the easternmost granitic inner island of Seychelles, are conducting their yearly task to count the number of giant tortoises on the island. Fregate is home to the second biggest giant tortoise population in the world - after the Aldabra atoll – a UNESCO World Heritage site where about 100,000 Aldabra giant [...]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky challenged the United Nations to "act immediately" or "dissolve yourself altogether" during a blistering address Tuesday in which he showed harrowing footage of dead bodies -- including children -- he said were victims of Russian atrocities. Likening Russia's actions in Bucha and other Ukrainian cities to violence carried out by "terrorists" [...]
Finland and Seychelles will look at opportunities for bilateral cooperation in economics and politics, said the newly accredited ambassador. The ambassador of Finland to Seychelles, Pirkka Tapiola, presented his credentials to President Wavel Ramkalawan on Tuesday. Tapiola told reporters that the two countries would like to "deepen our relationship, a very non-complicated, very like-minded relationship [...]
