Investigators in the Democratic Republic of Congo have uncovered "serious indications of actions against state security", the government said Tuesday following the surprise weekend arrest of the president's special security adviser. "The investigations are ongoing and they are taking place at various levels," a spokesman of President Felix Tshisekedi said in a statement read over [...]
Authorities in Seychelles have arrested three persons arriving into the country in possession of controlled drugs since the beginning of the year, the Anti-Narcotics Bureau said in a press statement on Tuesday. The ANB revealed that a 42-year-old man and a 45-year-old woman, both from Uganda, were apprehended on February 4 by its officers with [...]
Seychelles and Mauritius have extended an existing bilateral fisheries agreement for 60 days that will see the increase in license fees and a new environmental and research fee, said a top government official on Tuesday. The extension of the agreement is one of the outcomes of a five-day meeting between Seychelles and Mauritius. The meeting [...]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken headed for the Asia-Pacific on Tuesday aiming to shore up regional partnerships in the face of an expansive China, even as the crisis on Ukraine's border simmers. Blinken will spend three days in Melbourne for a meeting with foreign ministers of the Quad, the informal US-Japan-India-Australia grouping that Washington [...]
The prime minister of Mauritius announced on Monday a "historic visit" by a research vessel to the disputed Chagos Islands, an archipelago it claims in full but which is administered by Britain. Pravind Jugnauth told reporters that a scientific vessel would set out on Tuesday to the remote islands in the Indian Ocean. Among those [...]
Around 40 Seychellois military personnel are participating in Exercise Cutlass Express, the largest U.S. military training operation organised by American naval forces in the Indian Ocean, according to a press statement from the U.S. embassy in Mauritius on Monday. Fourteen nations are participating in this year's exercise, including Seychelles, Mauritius, Comoros, India, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, [...]
The clock tower in the capital Victoria has stopped chiming and is in need of repair, said the Seychelles National Institute for Culture, Heritage and the Arts (SNICHA) on Monday. The Victoria clock tower, made out of cast iron, is a national monument and a historical icon that sits in the heart of the capital [...]
Senegal arrived home on Monday after winning the Africa Cup of Nations, to hundreds of thousands of ecstatic and chanting fans, AFP journalists saw. Massive crowds of supporters descended on a military airport in the West African country's capital Dakar, blowing vuvuzelas and waving flags, to celebrate the victory. President Macky Sall was waiting at [...]
Cyclone Batsirai killed at least 10 people and displaced nearly 48,000 when it struck Madagascar overnight, the national disaster management agency said on Sunday. The cyclone later weakened but not before wreaking havoc in the poor Indian Ocean island nation which is still reeling from a deadly tropical storm earlier this year. Parts of the [...]
Seychelles' President Wavel Ramkalawan has invited the President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, for an official visit to Seychelles in a meeting on Saturday. According to a press release, Ramkalawan – who returned to Seychelles on Monday morning – held bilateral talks with Kenyatta to discuss cooperation between their countries on the sidelines of the AU [...]
