Seychelles' President Wavel Ramkalawan held discussions with various senior government officials and visited tourism establishments as part of his state visit to Maldives. State House said on Wednesday that Ramkalawan met with the Vice President of Maldives, Faisal Naseem, the Speaker of the Parliament of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed and the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Abdulla [...]
Seychelles' Takamaka Rum wins two gold awards at the Rum and Cachaca Awards competition, an achievement the distillery describes as incredible. Rum and Cachaça Masters is one of The Spirit Business' competitions which focuses on finding and rewarding the finest rum and cachaça brands on the world stage. According to The Spirit Business, "rum remains the [...]
Italy prepared to say farewell to former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi Wednesday, with thousands of people expected at the billionaire's state funeral in Milan. The ceremony for Berlusconi, who died Monday aged 86, will be held in the city's Gothic Duomo cathedral and shown live on screens in the square. Berlusconi, adored and loathed by [...]
Infringement of intellectual property rights and copyright as well as limited access to raw materials are among the challenges that Seychellois artists and artisans brought forth in a first consultative meeting to draft a status of the artist law for Seychelles. The first of a series of meetings was held on Tuesday for artists and cultural [...]
Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Tuesday to dozens of criminal counts of mishandling some of the US government's most sensitive secrets and scheming to prevent their return, in a historic first court appearance as a federal defendant. The former president -- and the favorite to fight next year's election for the Republicans -- gave himself [...]
South Africa has never been touched by Islamist attacks. Its three-decade-old democracy is solid, and its financial system is respected. Yet experts say the continent's most industrialised nation is now a nerve centre for jihadist financing in Africa. "South Africa is open hunting ground," Pretoria-based counter-terrorism expert Jasmine Opperman told AFP. Islamist financiers gather money [...]
Transferring more than a million barrels of oil from an abandoned tanker anchored off the shore of Yemen comes with "palpable risks" -- but doing nothing could lead to a devastating oil spill, a senior UN official said Wednesday. "If something were to go wrong, indeed, many questions will be asked," said Achim Steiner, head [...]
With the aim of providing artists and cultural professionals of Seychelles with more rights and access to social protection laws in future, an international expert is in the country to work on a policy-making project. Tasked by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) under the Aschberg programme, the expert, Avril Joffe, is conducting [...]
With the aim of providing artists and cultural professionals of Seychelles with more rights and access to social protection laws in future, an international expert is in the country to work on a policy-making project. Tasked by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) under the Aschberg programme, the expert, Avril Joffe, is conducting [...]
Environmentalists and students attended the first-ever Katy Beaver Memorial lecture as part of the Environment Week celebrations on Monday. The aim of the lecture was threefold - inspire young Seychellois into environmental conversations, publicise the work of young local scientists and honour the work of the late environmentalist Katy Beaver, whose work has been widely used [...]
