Desperate rescuers battled against the clock Thursday under pouring rain to pull survivors from the rubble after a powerful quake struck a mountainous border region of Afghanistan, killing at least 1,000 people. The 5.9-magnitude quake struck hardest in the rugged east, where people already lead hardscrabble lives in the grip of a humanitarian crisis made [...]
The African Union has said it will not be party to talks that exclude significant actors in an efort to get Sudan's transition back on track afer last year's military coup. Sudan's main civilian players have so far boycotted talks with military leaders launched under international auspices earlier this month on reaching a political accommodation [...]
A Namibian national has been sentenced to five years in prison by the Seychelles Supreme Court for the offence of conspiracy to import a controlled drug, the Anti-Narcotics Bureau (ANB) said on Wednesday. The ANB of the Seychelles Police Force said that Petrus Johannes Vermuelen, 31, pleaded guilty to the offence. The Namibian national was [...]
Seychelles' President, Wavel Ramkalawan, will join other world leaders at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) taking place from June 20-25 in Kigali, Rwanda, State House said on Tuesday. The meeting will open officially on Friday 24 by the Prince of Wales. Prince Charles is representing Queen Elizabeth, the head of the Commonwealth. The [...]
Leaders from the 54 Commonwealth countries gather in Rwanda under tight security this week for a long overdue but controversial summit that was twice postponed by Covid. Flags, from the tiny Pacific island of Tuvalu to South Asian giant India, are flying at the airport and the palm tree-lined road leading to the city and [...]
Thousands of Malians demonstrated Tuesday in the central town of Bankass to demand protection from the state after suspected jihadists massacred more than 130 civilians in nearby neighbouring villages. The mass killing -- the latest in a series of attacks across the Sahel -- resulted in one of Mali's highest civilian death tolls. Villagers continued [...]
The work to ensure that the vulnerability of small island states is recognised and supported by the international community is one of the greatest accomplishments of the outgoing Australian High Commissioner to Seychelles, Kate O'Shaughnessy. O'Shaughnessy made the statement to the press after she paid a farewell visit to Seychelles' President, Wavel Ramkalawan, at State House on Tuesday. She [...]
Seychelles' President Wavel Ramkalawan has announced that the financial difficulties Air Seychelles was previously facing have been resolved and that the government is considering an increase in social assistance for people earning less than SCR8,500 ($645). In his introduction at the second presidential press conference for this year at State House on Monday, Ramkalawan talked [...]
Hundreds of people belonging to the Amhara ethnic group were killed by rebels in Ethiopia's Oromia region over the weekend, survivors said Monday, but the insurgents denied the claims, blaming government forces for the deaths. Fighting erupted on Saturday morning in Oromia's Gimbi district between pro-government forces and the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), a rebel [...]
Seychelles has joined three other countries in a regional workshop to develop a road map for building a national security detection architecture for nuclear and other radioactive materials out of regulatory control. The event, which is hosted by Seychelles from June 20-24, is organised by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in collaboration with Seychelles' Ministry of Employment and [...]
