The Sudanese army pounded paramilitaries in the capital Khartoum with air strikes Thursday while deadly fighting flared in Darfur as the conflict entered a 13th day despite a US-brokered ceasefire. Late Wednesday, the army said it had agreed to talks in Juba, capital of neighbouring South Sudan, on extending the three-day truce which expires on [...]
Brussels welcomed Wednesday's conversation between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, thought to be their first call since Russia invaded Ukraine. "It is an important, long overdue first step by China in exercising its responsibilities as a member of the UN Security Council," said European Commission spokesman Eric Mamer. "China's leadership needs [...]
Three Seychellois life coaches living on three different continents are coming together to host an online summit in support of other women. Enda Gilbert based in Australia, Marsha Parcou in Seychelles and Lucy Dogley Darani in the United Kingdom are hosts of the summit entitled "She Sparkles: Honouring women from all areas of life." The [...]
A first batch of white shrimps produced locally by the state-owned Islands Development Company (IDC) will hit the Seychelles market on Thursday, said an official of the company. The public relations and communications manager, Michael Govinden, told reporters on Wednesday that 650kg of the white shrimps produced on Coetivy Island will be on sale only [...]
A UK Royal Navy-led task force under the command of Captain Jim Byron has seized around £17 million of illicit drugs in the Middle East. In a press statement on Tuesday, the Royal Navy said that "US Navy destroyer USS Paul Hamilton – operating under Combined Task Force 150, commanded by Captain Jim Byron and [...]
Kyiv's allies on Monday slammed Russia for a Security Council meeting chaired by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov about protecting the United Nations charter, which Moscow itself violated by invading Ukraine. "By organizing this debate Russia is trying to portray itself as a defender of the UN charter and multilateralism. Nothing can be further from the [...]
US President Joe Biden announced Tuesday he will seek re-election in 2024 and "finish the job," plunging at the record age of 80 into a ferocious campaign that could set up a rematch against Donald Trump. Launching his pitch in a video on the fourth anniversary of the day he began his 2020 challenge against [...]
On April 26, it will be exactly two and half years since Wavel Ramkalawan was sworn in as the President of Seychelles, representing the Linyon Demokratik Seselwa (Seychellois Democratic Union) party, which was formed through an alliance of the Seychelles National Party, led by Ramkalawan, and several smaller opposition parties. His accession was after 43 [...]
The production of eggs in Seychelles has been steadily increasing during the last 10 years but there are special conditions during the period of March to May, highly marked in April, that heavily affect egg production, especially this year. An agricultural officer in Seychelles, Jose Raul de Oca Brito, told SNA that there are many factors interacting [...]
Kenyan investigators on Tuesday exhumed 10 more bodies from mass graves linked to a starvation cult, bringing the total number of victims to 83, an AFP journalist at the scene said, as fears grow of the toll spiking even further. Police have spent days scouring the Shakahola forest near the coastal town of Malindi after [...]
