The United States and allies were on Saturday racing against "time and space" in the increasingly chaotic and dangerous bid to evacuate people from Taliban-held Afghanistan, with the EU warning it may be "impossible" to get everyone out in time. Six days after the Taliban swept to power, tens of thousands of people were still [...]
The Mozambique trial of 19 suspects linked to a $2-billion secret loan scandal that plunged the southern African country into its worst-ever financial crisis began Monday in the capital Maputo. The scheme, known as the "hidden debt" scandal, involved state-guaranteed loans contracted between 2013 and 2015 by three public enterprises -- ProIndicus, Mozambique Asset Management [...]
Plans to run a large-scale farming project on Coetivy island are still being pursued despite some hurdles that have arisen, a top official of the Islands Development Company (IDC) said on Monday. In August last year, a group of farmers went on a tour of Coetivy, one of the islands earmarked for farming, to see [...]
Local authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have closed half a dozen mining companies in South Kivu to ease tensions between locals and Chinese gold miners, a provincial source said on Saturday. The measure taken by Governor Theo Ngwabidje Kasi concerns the territory of Mwenga, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) southwest of Bukavu, where [...]
Telecommunication services in Seychelles will get a boost from a new cable system that will be leased by Intelvision, a local service provider, with support from the International Finance Corporation (IFC). The new cable system is expected to be in place in early 2023. IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, said in a [...]
Telecommunication services in Seychelles will get a boost from a new cable system that will be leased by Intelvision, a local service provider, with support from the International Finance Corporation (IFC). The new cable system is expected to be in place in early 2023. IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, said in a [...]
President Joe Biden on Sunday said he still hopes to complete the "heartbreaking" evacuation from Afghanistan by the end of the month but warned of potential terrorist attacks against the crowded Kabul airport. As the numbers of evacuees steadily rose, despite a volatile situation on the ground and enormous logistical difficulties, Biden said he was [...]
The flimsy planes tethered to metal drums to prevent them from accidentally becoming airborne are unlikely weapons in Kenya's fight to protect threatened species as it conducts its first national wildlife census. Decades of unbridled poaching, expanding human settlements and climate change have taken a heavy toll on the global wildlife population -- and central [...]
Health-conscious individuals in Seychelles now have a wider range of products they can choose from after Roots Juicery – a company that makes healthy juices and snacks - opened its doors. The brainchild of Sandrine Adeline, Roots Juicery is the first cold pressed juice bar to establish itself in the country. It focuses on the [...]
Madagascar on Friday restored global medical charity MSF's access to the country, where borders have been shut since the start of the pandemic, allowing relief work in the famine-hit south. Teams from Medecins Sans Frontieres had lost their special authorisation to continue travelling to the Indian Ocean island nation, shuttered since March 2020, when the [...]
