Gunmen kidnapped 140 students from a boarding school in northwestern Nigeria on Monday, a school official and police said, the latest in a wave of mass abductions targeting schoolchildren. Heavily armed gangs have long plagued northwest and central Nigeria by looting, stealing cattle and abducting for ransom, but since the start of the year they [...]
Working citizens of Seychelles might have to contribute more to their retirement fund and retire at a later age as the Seychelles Pension Fund looks at new measures to deal with the rise in life expectancy in the island nation. The Midyear Population Bulletin of 2020 published by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed [...]
South Africa's police minister on Monday said he was awaiting court instructions on whether to arrest ex-president Jacob Zuma, who has been given a 15-month jail term for contempt. The country's top court last week convicted Zuma for contempt and ordered him to turn himself in by end of Sunday to start his sentence. If [...]
Philippine security forces searched among coconut trees on a remote southern island Monday for the flight data boxes of an aircraft that crashed and killed 50 people in one of the country's worst military air disasters. The C-130 Hercules transport plane was carrying 96 people, most of them recent army graduates, when it overshot the [...]
Seychelles is set to ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons after the National Assembly overwhelmingly approved a motion in support of the treaty, which has gained significant support among non-nuclear nations. The Leader of Government Business, Bernard Georges, presented the motion last Wednesday and said the aim is to see nuclear weapons [...]
A huge forest blaze in Cyprus killed four people, destroyed homes and forced evacuations of villages, police said Sunday, as Greece, Israel and other countries deployed fire-fighting planes to the Mediterranean island. The Egyptian government said the four dead were agricultural workers from the North African country, while Nicosia vowed in a tweet to "stand [...]
One of Seychelles’ largest coral nurseries is now growing corals after undergoing several months of restoration, and the project is expected to restore a combined 0.5 hectares of coral reef habitat by the end of the project. The nursery in the Curieuse Marine Park was funded by the Adaptation Fund in October 2018 and is [...]
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Thursday denounced a "smear campaign" by the authorities in Madagascar against a journalist who works for several international media. Gaelle Borgia, a Pulitzer Prize winner for an investigation into Russian interference in the 2018 Malagasy presidential election, "is the subject of a campaign designed to discredit her", according to a [...]
A couple in Seychelles has opened a freediving school and a dedicated space for divers to meet close to Beau Vallon beach in the north of Mahe, the main island. Called Atoll Divers Seychelles, the venture is the brainchild of Emilie Chetty and her partner Arthur Anglade. The business opened its doors to clients in [...]
The creation of the Diaspora Unit within the Department of Foreign Affairs is giving Seychellois nationals living in other countries a new means to channel their queries and receive assistance. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the new unit on Thursday as it recognises the important role that Seychellois nationals living overseas can play in [...]
