The Seychelles Police issued a statement late on Friday announcing that they had started to investigate the death of Rosie Bistoquet, aged 62 from Pointe Larue, who was a proportional member of the Seychelles National Assembly for the ruling Linyon Demokratik Seselwa (LDS) party. “The police are treating this as a murder, the suspect in this [...]
Storm clouds are finally gathering over Zimbabwe's biggest animal reserve, but it has come too late for more than 110 elephants that have died in a searing, extended drought. There is little that Simba Marozva and other rangers at the Hwange National Park can do except cut the tusks off the rotting corpses before poachers [...]
A Seychellois woman, Beryl Dodin, has been named a Kindness Champion by the World Kindness Movement (WKM) in acknowledgement of her commitment and contributions to fostering compassion and goodwill. To commemorate World Kindness Day on November 13, the movement identified individuals around the world who were making a difference in the world through different acts of kindness [...]
Seychelles' President Wavel Ramkalawan has sent a message of condolence following the passing of a sitting Member of the National Assembly, Rosie Bistoquet, State House said on Friday. According to a police communique, an investigation has started in an incident that happened late on Thursday in the eastern Mahe district of Pointe Larue in which [...]
The Seychelles National Library re-opened its services to the public on Thursday with a limited number of books while the others are still being processed, said a top official. Speaking to SNA, the principal librarian at the National Library, Anne-Mary Robert, said that this is due to procedures they must follow. "When we look at the [...]
Angola said on Thursday it would leave OPEC over a disagreement on production quotas following the oil cartel's decision last month to further slash output next year. Mineral Resources and Petroleum minister Diamantino Azevedo said that the decision was not taken lightly, but OPEC membership no longer served the African country's interests. "We feel that [...]
France's parliament has passed a bill that paves the way towards human remains contained in its museum collections being repatriated to their countries of origin for burial. The law, which received its final approval in the upper house Senate late Monday, is the culmination of years of debate on the ethics of keeping human body [...]
The Israeli army said Thursday it bombed scores of targets in the Gaza Strip as diplomats pressed on with efforts to halt the fighting that Hamas says has killed 20,000 people in the Palestinian territory. United Nations relief chief Martin Griffiths called the surging death toll a "tragic and shameful milestone" as the UN Security [...]
The Seychelles Licensing Authority (SLA) is piloting digital driving licences to give drivers another alternative if they cannot have the physical ones available, a top official said on Friday. Ronny Antat, chief executive of the SLA told reporters that "It is due to popular demand that the SLA has decided to introduce a digital driving [...]
Government agencies, ministries and businesses in Seychelles will now include aspects of climate change in their planning and strategic policies, a top official said on Tuesday. The Minister for Agriculture, Climate Change and Environment, Flavien Joubert, told SNA that this follows Seychelles' participation in the 28th Conference of Parties (COP28), held in Dubai from December 1 [...]
