Dubai logistics giant DP World signed three contracts on Sunday with the Tanzanian government to operate part of Dar es Salaam's port for 30 years under a controversial deal covering all the country's ports. The new contracts give DP World exclusive management of four of the city docks' 12 moorings and of four more in [...]
Pope Francis pleaded Sunday for an end to the Hamas-Israeli conflict amid fears it could widen, and called for more humanitarian aid to be allowed into to the Gaza Strip. "War is always a defeat, it is a destruction of human fraternity. Brothers, stop! Stop!" Francis said after his traditional Angelus prayer at Saint Peter's [...]
Russian missile strikes killed at least six postal workers and wounded 17 others Saturday when they hit a mail depot in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region, officials said. President Volodymyr Zelensky shared a video on social media of what appeared to be a heavily damaged warehouse surrounded by rubble and a container with the logo of [...]
A small Seychelles-based cottage business producing an array of organic condiments from locally grown fruits is seeking to grow the venture, eyeing the international market in the long term. Owned by husband-and-wife entrepreneurs, Maria and Mark Stevens, "Koko Sey" is bringing to the local market cider vinegar made from mango, banana, pineapple, orange, and coconut. The [...]
The first aid trucks arrived in war-torn Gaza from Egypt on Saturday, bringing urgent humanitarian relief to the Hamas-controlled Palestinian enclave suffering what the UN chief labelled a "godawful nightmare". Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas after the Islamist militant group carried out the deadliest attack in the country's history on October 7. Hamas militants [...]
Seychelles will host the 2023 IFBB International Grand Prix for the first time with the participation of over 20 athletes vying for the top prize. The competition, which is being done in collaboration between the International Fitness and Bodybuilding Federation (IFBB) and local body Seychelles Elite Pro Amateur Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation, will take place [...]
The Linyon Demokratik Seselwa (LDS), the Seychelles ruling party, is equipping its campaigners with additional skills in how to hold effective campaigns with the help of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF). The two-day youth campaigners workshop is taking place at the L'Escale Resort and Spa from October 20 to 21. The workshop opened on Friday [...]
The Seychelles Supreme Court has remanded five foreign nationals and two Seychellois for 14 days, who were arrested on suspicion of importation of controlled drugs, the police said on Friday. According to the police, the five foreign nationals, two men and three women were intercepted and arrested upon their arrival at the Seychelles International Airport [...]
A recent study conducted at the remote Aldabra Atoll, one of Seychelles' UNESCO World Heritage sites, has shed light on the profound effects of coral bleaching on reef fish abundance, biomass, and assemblage structure. According to a press communique from the Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF), which manages the Aldabra Atoll, the research, published in Frontiers in [...]
The University of Seychelles (UniSey) will be organising a series of activities to raise funds for its 15-year celebration in September next year and to continue to provide quality education, according to a top official. The UniSey’s marketing and communications director, Dolivette Chang-Ko, told SNA that the university is committed to providing quality education and [...]
