Vote-counting was under way Tuesday following elections in Ethiopia that went ahead without polling in the war-torn northern Tigray region and other restive parts of Africa's second-most populous nation. Some 38 million were registered to vote but many must wait until September, with elections postponed or cancelled in one-fifth of national constituencies because of war, [...]
A male national of Guinea Bissau has been charged for the importation of a controlled drug by the Seychelles' Supreme Court while four other foreign nationals are being remanded, the Anti-Narcotics Bureau (ANB) said on Monday. According to ANB, the 44-year-old was arrested on June 5 after 500g of cocaine was detected hidden inside his [...]
The captain of a Sri Lankan-flagged fishing vessel intercepted in the waters of Seychelles has been charged for illegal fishing while the remaining crew awaits deportation. The captain was charged by the Supreme Court last Wednesday after his vessel, Godbless Sampath 7, was intercepted earlier this month by the patrol ship Topaz of the Seychelles Coast [...]
The future of Air Seychelles and the impact of the airline's financial situation on government finances and the domestic economy was part of discussions held in a meeting of the Financial Stability Committee, the Central Bank said on Monday. The Committee, which was set up in March 2016 and chaired by the Central Bank, held [...]
Iran's President-elect Ebrahim Raisi said on Monday that he will not allow nuclear negotiations for the sake of negotiations, in his first news conference since his election last week. Raisi, 60, won Friday's election in which more than half the voters stayed away after many political heavyweights had been barred from running and as an [...]
Zambia's founding president Kenneth Kaunda will be buried on July 7, three weeks after he died aged 97, the presidency announced on Monday. The hero of the struggle against white rule in southern Africa "shall be put to rest... at a very private ceremony for family and selected invited mourners," Vice President Inonge Wina said [...]
Seychelles along with other African countries is set to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine through a donation from the United States (US) under the COVAX programme. The American President, Joe Biden, announced last week that the United States will purchase and donate 500 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine produced in his country to 92 [...]
Seychelles is undertaking an exercise to identify potential areas rich in biodiversity resulting in the expansion of marine and terrestrial protected areas of Seychelles’ Inner Islands. The exercise being implemented under the Ridge to Reef R2R Project will be conducted at six Key Biodiversity Areas (KBA) in upland forest ecosystems which will result in [...]
Brazil on Saturday became the second country after the United States to surpass 500,000 Covid-19 deaths as the South American giant grapples with a third wave of the pandemic. "500,000 lives lost due to the pandemic that affects our Brazil and the world," Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga tweeted. The Health Ministry reported 500,800 deaths, including [...]
A young Seychellois artist hopes to run a series of public workshops to encourage people to develop an interest in macramé - a form of fibre art using knots or “hitches” to make patterned textiles. Antigone Frichot explained that this versatile form of art uses a special technique that has been around since the 13th century; [...]
