Conflict-torn Ethiopia is holding elections Thursday for dozens of federal parliamentary seats, the final round of voting before Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed forms a new government next week. The 47 contests are taking place in the Somali, Harari and Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' (SNNP) regions, and polling stations were open in all three places [...]
Tunisia's president on Wednesday named geologist Najla Bouden as the country's first ever female prime minister-designate, to form a government with limited executive clout after the president seized wide-ranging powers two months ago. Bouden, a university lecturer and political unknown, will take office after President Kais Saied on July 25 sacked the government of Hichem [...]
The Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA) will launch a study in November to determine the stock and the exact amount of the species of sea cucumber found in the island nation's waters. Representatives of the authority shared their plans with sea cucumber fishing licence holders and skippers on Wednesday. The last independent study Seychelles conducted to [...]
Prospective tenants of a building under construction at the previous Pirates Arms establishment site in Seychelles' capital Victoria received updated information on the project on Wednesday. The Seychelles Pension Fund (SPF), which owns the building, showed plans of the new establishment which will have seven stories and will cater to various entertainment businesses primarily owned [...]
Prospective tenants of a building under construction at the previous Pirates Arms establishment site in Seychelles' capital Victoria received updated information on the project on Wednesday. The Seychelles Pension Fund (SPF), which owns the building, showed plans of the new establishment which will have five stories and will cater to various entertainment businesses primarily owned by [...]
Seychelles has requested technical assistance from the U.S. Embassy in the fields of corruption investigations and revenue collection, the Ministry of Finance said on Tuesday. The Minister of Finance, Economic Planning and Trade, Naadir Hassan, made the appeal to the Chargé d'Affaires at the US Embassy in Mauritius, Judes DeBaere, during a courtesy visit. "One [...]
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus apologised on Tuesday on what he called a "dark day" for the agency after a damning report on allegations of rape and sexual abuse by workers sent to fight Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The report found "clear structural failures" and "individual negligence" among the UN [...]
A local construction company in Seychelles, Eco Villas, must refund the cost incurred for two houses after the board of commissioners of the Fair Trading Commission (FTC) ruled in favour of the complainants. The chief executive of the FTC, Francis Lebon told SNA that "we had two cases brought to the commission this year against [...]
Lava from an erupting volcano in the Canary Islands has reached the ocean, volcanologists said, raising fears of toxic gases being released as the molten magma hits the seawater. The Spanish archipelago had earlier declared an exclusion zone of two nautical miles around the location the lava was expected to enter the Atlantic and asked [...]
The Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS) will take unconventional measures against commercial banks if they do not implement monetary policies put in place in June, a top official said on Tuesday. The governor of the central bank, Caroline Abel, conveyed that warning to bankers in a press conference on monetary policy decisions for the fourth [...]
