Four Seychellois remained missing at sea as search and rescue operations resumed for a second day Monday. The four men went missing after the boat they were on caught fire in the early hours of Sunday morning. A fifth man was rescued in the sea shortly after the blaze started on board the vessel Sea [...]
Authorities in Seychelles on Monday afternoon were putting together a plan to remove a foreign fishing vessel that went aground on a reef. The director general of the Seychelles Maritime Safety Administration (SMSA), Joachim Valmont, told SNA on Monday that authorities have been given the go-ahead from the owner of the vessel to carry out [...]
Iran opened a lawsuit Monday demanding the UN's top court order the suspension of renewed US sanctions which it says are devastating its economy. The Islamic Republic says US President Donald Trump's decision to reimpose sanctions over its nuclear programme aim to bring it "to its knees" and are in breach of a 1955 treaty. [...]
A well-known cricket team from South Africa, Multiply Titans, is on four-day tour in Seychelles as part of its pre-season preparation. The Pretoria-based team arrived in the island nation last Thursday and among its activities for team building, was a friendly match against a local side -- Gran Kaz kings. The match took place on Sunday [...]
Emmerson Mnangagwa was officially sworn in as president of Zimbabwe on Sunday after winning a bitterly-contested election which was the country's first since the ousting of strongman Robert Mugabe. Mnangagwa, whose victory in the July 30 polls was challenged by the main opposition, pledged to "protect and promote the rights of Zimbabweans" at an inauguration [...]
An assessment of a tentative list of 15 hiking trails that will fall under the management of the Seychelles National Park Authority (SNPA is underway, said a top official on Wednesday. Selby Remy, the chief executive of the authority, said that an assessment needs to be done first in order to know the feasibility and [...]
Once-a-century rains that have pounded the Indian state of Kerala and displaced 1.3 million people are in line with the predictions of climate scientists, who warn that worse is to come if global warming continues unabated. The monsoon rains upon which farmers in the southwestern state depend for their food and livelihoods dumped two-and-a-half times [...]
A business in Seychelles has started a campaign to raise funds for people who have been affected by floods that triggered landslides through villages in the Indian state of Kerala. The initiative undertaken by Cash Plus money exchange aims to donate $2 (INR 100) to Kerala Relief Funds on every bank transfer that is sent [...]
Liberian President George Weah on Friday gave his country's top honour to Arsene Wenger and Claude LeRoy, the two French coaches who gave his football career an early boost. At a red-carpet ceremony in the suburbs of the capital Monrovia, Wenger was praised for the "development of the youth in Africa" throughout his coaching career. [...]
South Africa accused United States President Donald Trump of sowing division Thursday after he tweeted that the State Department would probe "land and farm seizures... and the large scale killing of farmers". Trump's tweet apparently followed a segment on conservative Fox News about Pretoria's plan to change the constitution to speed up expropriation of land [...]