Twenty years after Le Joola ferry sank, the Senegalese town where half of the nearly 1,900 dead lived paid tribute on Monday to those killed in the disaster described as a “wound that never heals”. When news spread that
Super Typhoon Noru slammed into the Philippines Sunday, battering the heavily populated main island of Luzon with strong winds and heavy rain that have forced thousands of people to flee their homes. The storm was packing maximum sustained winds
The Eastern and Southern Africa Trade Development Bank (TDB) is looking to boost the housing and health care sectors among others in the Seychelles, a top official said on Monday. The president of the TDB, Admassu Tadasse, made the
Local telecommunications company, Cable and Wireless Seychelles (CWS), has as of Monday morning begun to sell its shares to the public to increase its shareholder base and raise approximately $4.3 million. As of September 26, Cable and Wireless Seychelles,
The training, which started in Seychelles last week, includes search and rescue, maritime law and information sharing among others. Seychelles’ Designated Minister, Jean Francois Ferrari, said that “Seychelles attaches immense importance to the maritime domain, protection of maritime resources,
Officials described a “humanitarian catastrophe” in Haiti to the UN Security Council Monday, as the nation hits “new levels of desperation” after two weeks of violence and attacks on food aid warehouses. Protests and looting have rocked the already
The Seychelles Blue Carbon Roadmap report which highlights opportunities and where the island nation should be headed in this field was handed to the government on Monday. Developed by the James Michel Foundation, created by the former president of
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Seychelles Human Rights Commission, the Ombudsman and the Bar Association of Seychelles to lodge a formal motion for the recusal of the panel hearing a petition lodged by the three entities. The
The United Nations said Tuesday almost 6,000 Congolese refugees who fled to Zambia in 2017 have returned home since the launch of a voluntary repatriation scheme last year. Thousands of people crossed into Zambia from the Democratic Republic of
The Moscow organised votes in four occupied regions in Ukraine on annexation by Russia are a “sham” and “a blatant violation of international law,” NATO’s chief Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday. Stoltenberg tweeted that he spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr