In an effort to provide as much capacity building for professionals who work with marine protected areas (MPAs), the Seychelles Parks and Garden Authority (SPGA) is working with several organisations to provide further training with the participation of islands in the Indian Ocean region. The training, which arised from a collaboration between the SPGA, Réserves [...]
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Tuesday faced down rebels in his ruling Conservative party by winning a knife-edge parliamentary vote on his latest plans to send migrants to Rwanda. Sunak, in power for just over a year, has staked his political future on cutting record levels of regular and irregular migration, and the issue [...]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will press Tuesday for more US military aid to battle Russia, which said any funding would be a "fiasco" and claimed its forces were advancing on the front. Zelensky, who is in Washington to plead for continued support, will meet with President Joe Biden at the White House and also with [...]
The Disaster Risk Management Division (DRMD) in Seychelles is remaining on alert in case of further disasters while work at the Providence Industrial Estate after the December 7 explosion has moved to the recovery phase. The statement was made by the chief risk management officer, Daniel Cetoupe, in a press conference on Tuesday afternoon in which [...]
A bill that will give concerned authorities in Seychelles a clear mandate and power to promote the stability of the financial system was approved by the National Assembly on Monday. The Financial Stability Bill was presented by Naadir Hassan, the Minister for Finance, Economic Planning and Trade. In his presentation, Hassan said that such a framework [...]
The United Nations mission in Mali officially ended its 10-year deployment in the country on Monday, in a pullout ordered by Mali's military leaders. The symbolic ceremony marks the official end of the mission, the mission's spokesperson Fatoumata Kaba said, even though some elements remain in the country. "We are leaving... proud of what we [...]
India's top court upheld on Monday a move by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government to revoke the limited autonomy of Muslim-majority Kashmir, where an insurgency has raged for decades, and ordered elections within a year. The 2019 declaration was "a culmination of the process of integration and as such is a valid exercise of power", [...]
The Red Cross Society of Seychelles (RCSS) has assisted around 500 people who were affected after an explosion in a storage area for explosives at a quarrying company in the Providence Industrial area and flooding and landslide from heavy rainfall in northern Mahe on Thursday. The RCSS, whose secretariat is also based at the Providence [...]
The World Bank is looking into ways to offer help to Seychelles after the devastating effects of the heavy rainfall and explosions that happened last Thursday, a top official said on Monday. The executive director for a group of 22 countries, including Seychelles, from the World Bank Group, Floribert Ngaruko, made the statement to [...]
The World Health Organization's executive board on Sunday adopted a resolution calling for immediate, unimpeded humanitarian access to Gaza after the WHO chief said medics were facing unimaginable conditions. The 34 countries on the board adopted the resolution by consensus, even though some, notably the United States, had reservations about the dearth of references to [...]
