It is estimated that Africa loses more than $50 billion per year to illicit financial flows, the Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Baroness Patricia Scotland, said at the opening of a regional conference for heads of anti-corruption agencies in Africa being hosted by Seychelles. Scotland is urging the countries attending to take stock in order to [...]
One month since Sudan's conflict erupted, its capital is a desolate war zone where terrorised families huddle in their homes as gun battles rage in the dusty, deserted streets outside. As people hope to dodge stray bullets, they also endure desperate shortages of food and basic supplies, power blackouts, communications outages and runaway inflation. Khartoum, [...]
Between 50 to 60 farmers of a western district of Mahe, Seychelles’ main island, will benefit with improved water supply once the agriculture department completes a water reservoir project at Bon Espoir, Montagne Posee. Under the project, a gabion will be built to collect and store 1,000 cubic metres of water in a wetland identified [...]
Around 200,000 people have been displaced due to flash flooding in central Somalia, a regional official told AFP on Saturday, as the Shabelle River burst its banks and submerged roads. Inhabitants of Beledweyne town in Hiran region were forced out of their homes as heavy rainfall caused water levels to rise sharply, with residents carrying [...]
Bangladesh Saturday moved to evacuate Rohingya refugees from "risky areas" to community centres and hundreds fled an island as the most powerful cyclone in nearly two decades barrelled towards the country and neighbouring Myanmar, officials said. Cyclone Mocha was packing winds of up to 175 kilometres per hour (109 miles per hour) and meteorological officials [...]
The principles of democracy and the value of civic education are being further inculcated into young people in Seychelles now that members of the island nation’s youth assembly are elected instead of being chosen. A new cohort of the Seychelles National Youth Assembly (SNYA) took their oath of allegiance recently, following campaigns and elections in [...]
Two Seychellois runners along with a Reunion Island runner made it up the podium at the end of the first ever Nature Trail Seychelles Challenge. In a total of 118 participants, 25-year-old Greth Estico, best known locally for his boxing skills, finished the 22km trek in first place. Estico completed the journey, which took the [...]
South Africans were left angry and baffled on Friday after the United States accused their country of secretly shipping arms to Russia, a charge that triggered both a government rebuke but also the announcement of an inquiry. US ambassador Reuben Brigety on Thursday said Washington was confident weapons and ammunition had been laden onto a [...]
A luxury hotel, JA Enchanted Island Resort on Round Island in Seychelles, has joined the long list of tourism establishments in the country to adopt a school as part of the Lospitalite Tourism Clubs programme. The programme launched by the tourism department in February last year in what the principal secretary in the department, Sherin [...]
Seychellois doctors will be able to attend medical schools in Malta and there will be further exchanges in the education and health sectors after the two countries agreed to further deepen their relationship during a meeting on Friday afternoon. The two island states signed agreements on health cooperation, which will facilitate and strengthen bilateral institutional [...]
