Algeria coach Djamel Belmadi lauded his side's "incredible" Africa Cup of Nations triumph Friday as Baghdad Bounedjah's early goal earned a 1-0 victory over Senegal in the final. Bounedjah gave Algeria a dream start against Sadio Mane's Senegal, the top team in Africa, in front of a large Cairo crowd when his deflected shot looped [...]
Seychelles has won two gold medals in swimming during the first day of the Indian Ocean Islands Games (IOIG). The 10th edition of the IOIG was launched on Friday at the Cote d’Or multi-sport stadium in Mauritius. It will run from July 19-28. The first gold medals were clinched by Felicity Passon and Samuele Rossi. On Thursday, [...]
Kenya will on Friday inaugurate Africa's biggest wind power plant, a mammoth project in a gusty stretch of remote wilderness that now provides nearly a fifth of its energy needs. The $680-million (600 million euro) project, a sprawling 365-turbine wind farm on the eastern shores of Lake Turkana, will deliver 310 megawatts of renewable power [...]
A Brazilian has been arrested and is in detention in Seychelles for the offense of importation of a controlled drug. The 22-year-old was arrested by officers of the Anti-Narcotics Bureau (ANB) at the Seychelles International Airport on Monday while in possession of approximately 2 kilograms of suspected cocaine, officials said. According to a communique from [...]
Singapore is returning almost $40 million to Malaysia seized in connection with a massive financial scandal that played a major role in the toppling of the corruption-plagued government of Najib Razak, police said. The city-state is one of several countries that launched probes into allegations that billions of dollars were misappropriated from Malaysian sovereign wealth [...]
A study on how to elevate Indian Ocean port services to the same standard was commissioned Thursday with the signing of an agreement in Seychelles, which currently holds the presidency of the Vanilla Islands group. The chief executive of the Seychelles Ports Authority, Ronny Brutus, said that it is important that “we harmonise our infrastructure to the [...]
The Seychelles’ capital Victoria will renew an agreement with the city of Meizhou in China to rebuild a relationship which started two decades ago, said a top official. The Mayor of Victoria, David Andre, made the statement after meeting with a delegation of 10 from Meizhou on Wednesday. Andre said that the twinning agreement between Meizhou and [...]
A three-metre bronze statue of Nelson Mandela was unveiled at the Seychelles’ Peace Park in Victoria on Thursday in honour of the universally beloved South African president. “Nelson Mandela is an iconic figure in the world, with values, way of living, and ideals that he wanted the world to follow such as peace and reconciliation. [...]
The Seychelles’ Supreme Court has ordered that a Comorian national who pleaded guilty for illegal fishing in the island nation’s waters be repatriated to his country of origin or residency. Ben Attoomani, 51, was also fined SCR 1,000 ($74) for fishing in the Seychelles’ waters without a licence. When passing the sentence on Monday, Justice Mathilda [...]
The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo a "public health emergency of international concern," a rare designation only used for the gravest epidemics. The year-old Ebola epidemic in eastern DR Congo, the second deadliest on record, has largely been contained to remote areas, but this week [...]
