South African police were on Monday combing a township tavern where 21 teenagers mysteriously died as survivors described a battle to escape the jam-packed premises and one reported a suffocating smell. Officials have ruled out a stampede as the cause of the deaths. Most of the victims, some as young as 13, were found dead [...]
Two foreign nationals who were arrested in Seychelles last month in connection with robberies that took place at two foreign currency exchange bureaus have been deported, a top government official said on Tuesday. The Minister for Internal Affairs, Errol Fonseka, made the statement when answering a private notice question from the Leader of the Opposition [...]
The Seychelles National Institute for Culture, Heritage and the Arts (SINCHA) is looking for an alternative place to house the country's National Archives following the announcement recently that it will no longer be in the same building as the National Library. SINCHA's Permanent Secretary Cecile Kalebi announced that "we have plans for a new building of which we will [...]
International and local relief organisations are shifting their focus from the immediate to longer term for areas of Afghanistan hit by last week's killer earthquake, officials said Monday. The 5.9-magnitude quake early last Wednesday hit hardest in impoverished Paktika province in the east, killing more than 1,000 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless. While [...]
The governor of the Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS), Caroline Abel, is the new chairperson of the Africa Financial Inclusion Policy (AfPI) and the first woman to assume this position, the bank said on Monday. Abel, who has been leading the CBS since March 2012, officially took over the position at the 10th AfPI meetings and leaders' [...]
President Volodymyr Zelensky will urge world powers to step up their support for Ukraine when he addresses the G7 summit on Monday, as Kyiv reels from the first Russian strikes on the capital in weeks. US President Joe Biden and his counterparts from the Group of Seven wealthy democracies, meeting in the Bavarian Alps, have [...]
Seychelles' Maritime Accident Investigation Board (MAIB)and its Spanish counterpart will carry out an investigation into an ammonia leak on a Spanish-flagged tuna fishing vessel. The incident, which took place on Wednesday, June 15, caused the death of two Spanish crew members. Through the investigation, authorities are seeking to establish the factors that contributed to this incident [...]
Gabon and Togo joined the Commonwealth on Saturday, becoming the latest nations with no historic ties to Britain to enter the English-speaking club headed by Queen Elizabeth II. The 54-nation group of mostly former British colonies accepted Togo and Gabon's application for membership on the final day of its leadership summit in Rwanda. "We have [...]
At least 20 young people have died at a township pub in South Africa's southern city of East London, but the cause of the deaths is still unclear. Senior officials from the provincial government rushed to the scene, where at least six mortuary vehicles were lined up in the residential street waiting to collect the [...]
Forty-four artists from 19 different countries including Seychelles will take part in this year's edition of the Seychelles Biennale of Contemporary Art scheduled for July 31 - August 28. According to the event's curator, Martin Kennedy, the Biennale will be held be held under the theme "Lost and Found," which relates to the COVID-19 pandemic, [...]
