Seychelles' capital city Victoria and the city of Grodzisk Mazowiecki in Poland will enhance existing cooperation through a newly signed partnership agreement. The agreement, which was signed in a virtual ceremony recently by the acting Mayor of Victoria, Lydia Charie, and Grzegorz Benedykciński, Mayor of Grodzisk Mazowiecki, was initiated by the Polish Embassy in Nairobi. [...]
The government of Senegal President Macky Sall on Wednesday adopted an amnesty bill aimed at bringing "appeasement" as the country reels from its biggest political crisis in decades. Senegal's crisis was sparked by Sall postponing a presidential election that was due to take place last Sunday. The amnesty, which must first pass through the national [...]
The world generated 2.3 billion tonnes of municipal waste last year and the pile of trash is set to grow another two-thirds by 2050, the UN said Wednesday, warning of devastating costs for health, economies and the environment. Pollution is set to escalate, according to new research by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), with projections [...]
New regulations for the importation of vehicles are expected to be in force before January 2025 and they will lay out the minimum requirements needed for motor vehicle dealers to import any transport to Seychelles, said a top official on Wednesday. The regulation will primarily be geared towards safety and one of the aspects is [...]
Seychelles is expected to repay its debt to Russia by 2027, after both nations agreed on the restructuring of a loan taken in 1987. Dick Labonte, the director general for the Debt Management Division within the Ministry of Finance, National Planning and Trade, said during a press conference on Tuesday, that there is $2.4 million [...]
More than two million animals have died in Mongolia so far this winter, a government official said Monday, as the country endures extreme cold and snow. The landlocked country is no stranger to severe weather from December to March, when temperatures plummet as low as minus 50 degrees Celsius (minus 58 Fahrenheit) in some areas. [...]
While Macron did not provide any details, the French foreign ministry said the idea did not foresee French troops directly fighting against Russian forces in Ukraine. Speaking to reporters, Lithuanian Defence Minister Arvydas Anusauskas said on Tuesday: "We are talking about training missions, training components. Training." Former senior NATO official Camille Grand said Macron's statements were [...]
The turtle nesting season in Seychelles is going well and there have been no records of confirmed poaching incidents to date for the hawksbill turtle, said a top environmental officer. The director of the Biodiversity Conservation Section at the Ministry of Agriculture, Climate Change and Environment, Ashley Dias, said, "The nesting season is from October [...]
The two leaders in the Seychelles' National Assembly on Tuesday gave their responses to the State of the Nation Address delivered by President Wavel Ramkalawan last week. The Leader of the Opposition, Sebastien Pillay, who represents the United Seychelles party, said that this was an occasion for the President "to give his government's plan to [...]
The Seychelles Investment Board (SIB) kicked off celebrations for its 20th anniversary with the unveiling of its commemorative logo that will be used throughout this year. The SIB began its operations in July 2004 with the aim of promoting and facilitate local and foreign investments. In the past two decades, it has been able to [...]
