Seychelles is hosting the 13th Regional Conference of Heads of Anti-Corruption Agencies in the Commonwealth of Africa. The three-day event opened officially on Monday by the Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Baroness Patricia Scotland. Scotland also met with Seychelles' President, Wavel Ramkalawan later on Monday at State House. SNA met with the Secretary-General to learn more [...]
A French appeals court on Wednesday upheld a prison sentence of three years, including two suspended, against former president Nicolas Sarkozy for corruption and influence peddling. The court ruled he should serve one year in detention at home with an electronic bracelet and banned him from public office for three years over his attempts to [...]
The United Nations on Wednesday said $3.03 billion would be needed to provide urgent aid in conflict-ravaged Sudan and for over one million expected to flee into neighbouring countries this year. Needs have soared since a bloody conflict erupted in Sudan last month, the UN said, dramatically revising up its response plan. "Today, 25 million [...]
The Cable & Wireless Seychelles (CWS) telecommunication company launched a month-long exhibition on Wednesday as part of activities to mark its 130th anniversary in the island nation. A group gathered at Kenwyn House in the capital Victoria for an exhibition to view artefacts that document the company's presence in Seychelles and the evolution of telecommunication [...]
A two dimensional (2D) and three dimensional (3D) mapping project being undertaken on four coastal sites on Seychelles' main island, Mahe, seeks to provide up-to-date data that will help in the integration of ecological processes into the development and planning of coastal areas. The high-resolution 2D/3D coastal mapping and monitoring of the island is being [...]
Six African leaders plan to travel to Russia and Ukraine "as soon as is possible" to help find a resolution to the war, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said Tuesday. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky have "agreed to receive the mission and the African heads of state" in Moscow and Kyiv, [...]
One hundred and six families in Seychelles are due to receive newly built government housing units by the middle of this year as part of the state's plans to continue housing its people. The announcement was made by Billy Rangasamy, the Minister for Land and Housing, following a visit to eight housing project sites on Tuesday. The [...]
Seychelles' women's volleyball club ARSU won one match and lost one in the 2023 Confederation of African Volleyball (CAVB) championship taking place in Tunisia on Sunday. ARSU won their match against Indian Ocean neighbours Quatre Borne Volleyball Club (QVC) of Mauritius in 3 sets to 1, with the set scores of 25-17, 17-25, 25-23, 28-26. [...]
Cleaning up decades-long oil pollution and restoring environmental health in just one of Nigeria's crude-producing states will cost at least $12 billion, investigators said on Tuesday. Bayelsa state, home to some two million people, "is in the grip of a human and environmental catastrophe of devastating proportions," they warned in a much-awaited report. Lying in [...]
Comoros said Monday it will resume accepting its nationals returning "voluntarily" from the neighbouring French island of Mayotte, following a weeks-long standoff with Paris over the expulsion of undocumented Comorans. France said last month that it would deport thousands of undocumented Comoran migrants and started razing slums as part of a security operation in Mayotte. [...]
