Mali was in turmoil Tuesday after disgruntled army officers detained the president and the prime minister, sparking fears of a coup less than a year after the last military takeover in the impoverished west African nation. The newest crisis to hit the vast country where jihadists control large swathes of territory sparked widespread international condemnation. [...]
The ending of unemployment benefits in Seychelles has led to a rise in people searching for jobs, though the relaunching of the tourism sector has provided new employment opportunities, said a top official on Monday. As of March, there were 1,121 jobseekers registered with the employment services section out of which 61 percent were females [...]
Powerful aftershocks from the Mount Nyiragongo volcano rocked the eastern DR Congo city of Goma on Tuesday as the death toll from the disaster climbed to 32 and thousands were feared homeless. Three days after Africa's most active volcano roared back into life, spewing lava that reached the outskirts of the city of 1.5 million, [...]
Prisoners in Seychelles will take part in a project to harvest cinnamon bark for exportation as part of their rehabilitation. The work is an initiative of the Seychelles Prison Services under its ‘Phoenix Project’ rehabilitation programme and Seychelles’ longest exporters of cinnamon bark Chaka Brothers (Pty) Ltd. The collaboration was sealed through an agreement signed [...]
Seychellois seafarers looking to work on foreign-flagged vessels will undergo less scrutiny as the island nation's gears up to sign Memorandum of Understandings (MOUs) with around 10 countries on mutual recognition and endorsement of certificates. Through the MOU, Seychellois seafarers will be issued with a Seychelles' Seafarers' Certificates of Competency. Seafarers holding certificates issued by [...]
Three Seychellois and four Indonesian nationals have been arrested after a local vessel was intercepted during the weekend, the Police and the Seychelles People's Defence Forces (SPDF) said in a joint press communiqué. The communiqué on Sunday stated that during a coordinated operation by the Seychelles Air Force, Seychelles Coast Guard and National Information Sharing [...]
Thirteen people died and two children were seriously injured Sunday when a cable car slammed into the side of a mountain in northern Italy, emergency services said. The toll could rise further from the accident in Stresa, a resort town on the shores of Lake Maggiore in Italy's Piedmont region, the Alpine rescue service said [...]
The national efforts made during the last five years in Seychelles to improve the human rights of its people have been included in the island nation's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of its human rights report. The advancements noted in the report include the setting up of the Seychelles Human Rights Commission; the Truth, Reconciliation and [...]
A river of red-hot lava stopped Sunday on the edge of Goma, sparing the eastern DR Congo city from disaster after an overnight eruption of the Nyiragongo volcano sent thousands of terrified residents fleeing in panic.Fire and fumes rose from the blackish molten rock as it swallowed up houses, flowing towards Goma airport on the [...]
Thousands have fled a volcanic eruption in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but the flaming lava from Mount Nyiragongo appeared to have come to a halt on the outskirts of Goma city early Sunday. According to an AFP correspondent at the scene, the molten rock, which the eruption had sent close to Goma airport on [...]
