Seychelles' President Wavel Ramkalawan and First Lady Linda Ramkalawan met with some members of the Seychellois community living and working in the United Kingdom on Thursday, said State House. The couple is in the UK to attend the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla on Saturday at Westminster Abbey. King Charles III will be the [...]
Women in Logistics and Transport (WiLAT) Seychelles is consolidating its presence in the island nation and has announced a change in the platform's chairpersonship locally in a half-day seminar on Thursday. WiLAT Seychelles is part of WiLAT, an international platform that brings together over 3,200 members in 38 countries. Launched in June 2003, WiLAT promotes [...]
Moscow on Thursday accused the US of masterminding a drone attack on the Kremlin, a charge denied by Washington, and said Ukrainian sabotage on Russian territory had reached "unprecedented momentum". Moscow said President Vladimir Putin was working from the Kremlin the day after the attack, which it said was a Ukrainian attempt to kill him. [...]
US President Joe Biden on Thursday threatened to impose new sanctions over Sudan's conflict, saying the fighting "must end", as gunfire and explosions rocked Khartoum for a 20th straight day. Hundreds of people have been killed in Sudan since battles began on April 15 between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan's forces and his former deputy [...]
Seychellois professionals wishing to pursue higher education can now do so through an educational loan scheme already launched and facilitated by the government in collaboration with several local banks. The announcement was made on Thursday by Odile Vidot, the director general for the Financial Services Development Division in the Department of Finance. "This educational loan [...]
Married off by her parents at 14, Indian mother-of-seven Jaimala Devi kept having children because her husband insisted she could only stop once she had given birth to two sons. Devi's story is common across Bihar, the poorest state in the world's most populous country and also its fastest-growing: with around 127 million people, it [...]
A group of journalists in Seychelles learned more about investigative journalism in a one-day training event on Wednesday to coincide with World Press Freedom Day, celebrated on May 3. The training was organised for the third consecutive year by the French embassy in Seychelles in collaboration with the Association of Media Practitioners of Seychelles (AMPS). The [...]
Seychelles is aiming to digitalise customs procedures for courier services at the Seychelles International Airport with the aim to limit errors and delays, said Vice President Ahmed Afif. The announcement was made by Afif in a press briefing on cabinet decisions at the State House on Thursday. Afif said that, currently, there is a lot of [...]
Visiting Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Wednesday hailed Syria's Bashar al-Assad for overcoming sanctions and achieving "victory" in the country's 12-year-long civil war, in which Tehran has been a major ally. The Syria conflict has killed more than 500,000 people, displaced millions and battered the country's infrastructure and industry. While the front lines have mostly [...]
Seychelles has gone down 21 places on the World Press Freedom Index going from 13th place in 2022 to 34th in 2023. The Index is published by the Reporters Without Borders (RWB), a Paris-based non-governmental organisation. The release of the ranking every year coincides with World Press Freedom Day on May 3, a date that [...]
