Several thousand people ransacked and looted a government food warehouse in central Nigeria on Saturday in the latest in two weeks of unrest sweeping over Africa's most populous country. After pillaging hit Lagos and Ede in the country's southwest, crowds of people raided a huge warehouse in Jos that was storing supplies destined for distribution [...]
Voters across Seychelles' three main islands cast ballots on Saturday for the presidential and National Assembly elections, with more than three-fourths of eligible voters casting ballots. Counting of ballot papers has started and the results are expected in the early morning of Sunday. The island nation's 75,000 eligible voters chose among three candidates running for [...]
Leaders contesting the presidential election in Seychelles said Saturday that they hope the process is fair and peaceful and that the country respects whoever is elected as the new president of the island nation. The three candidates - Wavel Ramkalawan from the Linyon Demokratik Seselwa (LDS); Danny Faure, the incumbent president of United Seychelles (US); and Alain St Ange of One Seychelles – spoke at their [...]
Around 32 percent of eligible voters in Seychelles had cast their ballots by 12 noon on Saturday, the main voting day, in the presidential and National Assembly elections, said a top official of the Electoral Commission. The chief electoral officer, Manuella Amesbury, told the press that the Commission is really satisfied with the rate of [...]
Voters on Seychelles' three main islands lined up early Saturday to cast ballots in the island nation's third and final day of voting for President and National Assembly. Three candidates are running for President: Wavel Ramkalawan of Linyon Demokratik Seselwa (LDS), Danny Faure of United Seychelles (US) and Alain St Ange of One Seychelles. Seventy-three [...]
The European Union's disease control agency has joined frantic health workers to sound the alarm over a coronavirus surge across the continent, as the World Health Organization warned of an "exponential" rise in infections. Even countries that avoided severe outbreaks during Europe's first wave of contagion in the spring have watched their case numbers surge, [...]
Voters from Seychelles’ Aldabra island weren’t able to cast ballots in the presidential and National Assembly election on Friday due to bad weather. Because of rough seas the six-person group couldn’t take the 90-minute boat trip to neighboring Assumption island where voting took place. Friday was the second day of voting in the three-day election [...]
Seychelles will pay an initial $64,000 to access COVID-19 vaccines developed by medical research institutions, said a top health official. The island nation is expected to pay $1.3 million (SCR25 million) in total to the COVAX secretariat, a global initiative by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that brings together governments and manufacturers to ensure eventual [...]
Health officials in South Sudan on Thursday confirmed a new outbreak of polio, just months after declaring the wild version of the deadly virus eradicated in Africa's youngest country. The health ministry said 15 cases of vaccine-derived polio -- a form of the illness which occurs in rare incidents when the weakened virus in the [...]
Voters on eight of Seychelles’ outer islands cast ballots on Thursday in the island nation’s three-day presidential and National Assembly elections. Seychellois nationals working on Coetivy, Platte, Poivre, D’Arros, Remire, Desroches, Farquar and Alphonse cast 220 ballots on the first day of the vote. Three different groups of electoral officers from the main island of [...]
