The Seychelles National Awards committee launched the nomination period for this year's event on Monday at State House. The chairperson of the committee, Robert Grandcourt, is urging people to nominate those who they think deserve the awards. This is the second edition of the National Awards, created in 2022, aimed at recognising people who have [...]
Eye care specialists in Seychelles will benefit from the Teaching Eye Surgery (T.E.S) Foundation, which is increasing the number of visits their specialists make to the island nation to improve eye care. The announcement was made by a visiting T.E.S consultant, Cyrus Tabatabay, on Friday. The T.E.S Foundation is internationally recognised for its dedication to advancing eye [...]
Rebel groups are making new gains in eastern DR Congo after Indian UN troops abandoned positions near a regional capital, according to an internal UN document seen by AFP. The UN mission in Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO), which is being being wound down, said in a note to staff that "the current security situation [...]
The United Nations and other international aid organisations on Sunday decried the devastating toll of six months of war in Gaza, warning that the Palestinian territory had become "beyond catastrophic". "Six months is an awful milestone," the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said, warning that "humanity has been all but [...]
France will aim to renew ties with Africa and build "balanced partnerships" that are beneficial to the continent, the country's top diplomat Stephane Sejourne said Saturday. Relations have spiralled downwards between France and some former African colonies as the continent becomes a renewed diplomatic battleground, with Russian and Chinese influence growing. Appointed in January, Sejourne [...]
With the aim to promote sustainability in Seychelles and the restaurant community, Trois Freres Distillery, renowned as the producer of Takamaka Rum, has initiated the Islands Bar Sustainability project. The project's primary objective is to research, conduct trials, make improvements, and offer support to drive meaningful changes that will foster sustainability within the Seychelles bar [...]
The Botswanan president has threatened to send 20,000 elephants to Germany in a dispute over the import of hunting trophies. Germans should "live together with the animals, in the way you are trying to tell us to", Mokgweetsi Masisi told German daily Bild. "This is not a joke," said Masisi, whose country has seen its [...]
In an effort to combat the pervasive crime of human trafficking, government officers and law enforcement agencies in Seychelles attended comprehensive training sessions to gain more insight into how to better identify, investigate and prosecute trafficking in person cases. The three-day training was organised by the National Coordinating Committee against Trafficking In Persons (NCCTIP), in [...]
Two Seychellois sisters have published a paper in which they have compiled and analysed data on beach debris and plastic in the Inner Islands group of Seychelles. The paper entitled "Beached plastic and other anthropogenic debris in the inner Seychelles islands: Results of a citizen science approach," was written by Alvania Lawen, a student at the University [...]
The National Assembly of Seychelles has signed an agreement to implement the next phase of the sexual reproductive health and rights governance project with the Southern African Development Community Parliamentary Forum (SADC PF). The Speaker of the Assembly, Roger Mancienne, and the secretary general of the SADC PF, Boemo Sekgoma, and Tania Isaacs, clerk of the National Assembly, [...]
