"If you have the polling card, you go and vote, but it's complicated once you're there," said Yagana Adi, 55, who wants to vote in Cameroon's presidential election on Sunday. Her identity papers were lost when she fled an attack on her village by Boko Haram jihadists in 2014. The raid happened in Djakana in [...]
Melania Trump on Tuesday arrived in Ghana on the first leg of her maiden, solo tour of Africa that has been billed as a chance to carve her own diplomatic path. The US first lady stepped off an overnight flight from Andrews Airforce Base near Washington and onto a red carpet at Accra's Kotoka International [...]
Local models, designers and accessory makers are being called to come forward as Seychelles gears to host its first-ever fashion week. The Seychelles Fashion Week will take place at the AVANI Seychelles Barbarons Resort and Spa in the western side of the main island of Mahe from November 29 to December 2. Terry Carolla, the [...]
A year after a banned referendum on secession from Spain, tens of thousands of Catalan protesters piled pressure on the region's separatist government Monday during an anniversary marked by road and railway line blockades and late-night clashes with police. According to municipal police, 180,000 protesters gathered in Barcelona late in the day behind a banner [...]
The Seychelles Diplomatic Convention officially kicked off on Monday, bringing together Honorary Consuls and Ambassadors representing Seychelles all over the world. The event is taking place at Eden Bleu from October 1 to 5. Previously known as the Honorary Consul Conference, the convention creates a platform where Seychellois diplomats can discuss and be brought up [...]
The Seychelles’ Magistrates’ Court and tribunals are set to get a new state-of-the-art building by January 2020 funded by the government of India. The foundation stone of the new building was laid on Friday symbolising the beginning of construction for the establishment which will be located at Ile du Port -- a manmade island on [...]
Diplomats gathering in South Korea Monday will find themselves in the awkward position of vetting and validating a major UN scientific report that underscores the failure of their governments to take stronger action on climate. The UN special report on global warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels began as a [...]
A group of people from Reunion -- a French overseas department in the Indian Ocean -- was on the island nation to establish the line of descent between families there and in Seychelles. The group of eight which forms part of the “Cercle généalogique de Bourbon” (CGB) - an association of genealogy studies - travelled [...]
Mass graves were being readied Monday for hundreds of victims of an Indonesian quake-tsunami as authorities battled to stave off disease and reach desperate people still trapped under shattered buildings. With the death toll already at over 830 and expected to rise further on the devastated island of Sulawesi, there were growing questions about why [...]
A Chinese doctor working in Seychelles as a radiologist has gifted the Ministry of Health a medical book comprising imaging data of patient cases for teaching purpose. Sun Zhanguo -- author of the book ‘Seychelles Radiation Cases-Image Analysis and Diagnosis Essentials’ -- told SNA that the absence of imaging data on common ailments in Seychelles [...]