West African leaders met in Nigeria's capital Abuja on Sunday for talks on their region in deepening crisis, after four countries fell under military rule and with risks growing from Sahel jihadist conflicts. After coups in Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea and Niger since 2020, the Economic Community of West African States or ECOWAS saw member [...]
Robert Payet, the Seychellois owner of the 5-star hotel Le Duc de Praslin Hotel & Villas won the Entrepreneur of the Year award for 2023 at the Business Awards ceremony organised by the Seychelles Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) on December 2. Le Duc de Praslin also won the award for Best Large Tourism Establishment, [...]
The United Nations Security Council met behind closed doors on Friday to discuss the fast-escalating row between South American neighbors Venezuela and Guyana over a disputed oil-rich region. World leaders called for calm as Venezuela decried joint US-Guyana military exercises as a "provocation" and vowed to push ahead with its "recovery" of the Essequibo region, [...]
Seychellois bodybuilder Wallace Dorasamy has once again made it big on the international stage, this time winning gold at the NPC (National Physique Committee) Worldwide African Pro Qualifier held in Cape Town. Dorasamy competed in the Bodybuilding and Men's Classic Physique categories in the event at the Corpus Christi Panorama in Cape Town, South Africa [...]
The coco de mer is the world's largest nut, and is endemic to Seychelles, a group of 115 islands in the western Indian Ocean. It grows naturally only on two of Seychelles' islands, Praslin, and its neighboring Curieuse island – terrestrial and marine parks. On Praslin, it is found mainly at the Vallee de Mai [...]
The head of UN climate talks pressed nations Friday to move fast to deliver an "unprecedented" pact on tackling global warming, as negotiators scrambled to bridge differences over phasing out fossil fuels. While UN climate talks rarely finish on time, COP28 president Sultan Al Jaber has set the ambitious goal of wrapping up the summit [...]
People who have been affected by the major explosion at Seychelles' Providence Industrial Area said they are grateful for the assistance they are getting but are also frustrated and exhausted. A massive explosion took place in the early morning of Thursday in an explosives storage facility of the Civil Construction Company Limited (CCCL) causing enormous [...]
The Seychelles President Wavel Ramkalawan announced on Thursday the opening of a relief fund called the 7th December Disaster Fund, in which people in Seychelles or abroad can make monetary donations in Seychelles rupees, US dollars, British pounds and euros. Bank accounts for the ‘7th December Disaster' Fund Central Bank of Seychelles Account Name: 7th December DisasterAccount Number: [...]
Seychelles won the World's Most Romantic Destination for the fourth consecutive year title at the 30th World Travel Awards 2023, Tourism Seychelles, the marketing branch of the Tourism Department, said on Tuesday. This year's ceremony took place on December 1 at Dubai's famous Burj Al Arab. The director general of Destination Marketing, Bernadette Willemin, praised the partners for their [...]
Seychelles' President Wavel Ramkalawan announced in a press statement in the late afternoon on Thursday that Seychelles is no longer in a state of emergency as of 5.50 pm. Seychelles was in a state of emergency earlier on Thursday morning following an explosion in a storage area for explosives at a quarrying company in the [...]
