Spanish election authorities on Monday banned Catalonia's former president Carles Puigdemont, who fled the country in 2017 after a secession attempt, from running in upcoming EU polls. Puigdemont slammed the move in a tweet as a "legal scandal and a coup to democracy". The electoral commission decision, seen by AFP, also excludes Toni Comin, who [...]
A new political party -- One Seychelles -- headed by Seychelles’ former tourism minister, Alain St Ange, was launched last Friday at the Chilli Bar restaurant. St Ange, the party's leader, told SNA that the name ‘One Seychelles’ stands for a unified Seychelles, focused on safeguarding the island nation and where everyone’s ideas and contributions are [...]
Three out of five suspected pirates from Somalia who were transferred to Seychelles by EU NAVFOR last week were remanded until May 13 by the Supreme Court on Monday. The EU NAVFOR Somalia Operation Atalanta transferred the five suspects to Seychellois authorities after responding to piracy attacks on 21 April 2019, the local Department of Foreign Affairs said on Saturday. [...]
Seychelles will continue discussions and negotiations before signing on to the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), a deal that could open the door to more trade to and from the island nation, said a top official. The island nation in the western Indian Ocean has signed the agreement but has yet to ratify it. [...]
Floods sparked by torrential rains have killed 29 people in Indonesia with a dozen more still missing, officials said Monday, marking the latest calamity for a disaster-prone nation. Landslides and floods are common, especially during the monsoon season between October and April, when rains lash the vast Southeast Asian archipelago. On Monday, Indonesia's disaster agency [...]
A Russian photographer living in Seychelles is running a project aimed at showing that adolescents from around the world all share the same thoughts and feelings despite the difference in look. Seychelles is the second location after Crimea, a peninsula in Eastern Europe, in which the photographer, Eva Vradiy, did her project. She captured the [...]
Thousands of people in remote areas of storm-lashed Mozambique were homeless Saturday and bracing for imminent flooding, food and water shortages as Cyclone Kenneth flattened entire villages, leaving rescuers struggling to reach them. Kenneth, which has killed five people, struck northern Mozambique late Thursday, barely a month after the country was hit by one of [...]
All licensed entertainment establishments in Seychelles using copyrighted musical work of local artists will now have to settle royalty payments before the renewal of their licences, said a top official. The new system came into force on Friday after the signing of an agreement between the Seychelles Authors and Composers Society (SACS) and the Seychelles Licensing Authority [...]
Fifteen people including six children have died during a Sri Lankan security forces operation in the aftermath of the Easter attacks, as three cornered suicide bombers blew themselves up and others were shot dead, police said Saturday. The three men set off explosives, also killing three women and six children inside what was believed to [...]
The back-to-back cyclones that have ravaged Mozambique are unprecedented in recorded history, the UN said Friday, as it planned to examine the country's defences against extreme weather in the light of climate change. Cyclone Kenneth, which smashed into northern Mozambique late Thursday, hit "an area where no tropical cyclone has been observed since the satellite [...]
