Seychelles' President Wavel Ramkalawan is the new president of SIDS DOCK, a small island developing states initiative for renewable energy and sustainable development. In a press release on Tuesday, SIDS DOCK said that Ramkalawan was elected by acclamation on Monday at the seventh session of the organisation's General Assembly. This took place in the margins [...]
A Tanzanian national and five Seychellois arrested in a suspected witchcraft case, related to two bodies that were dug up from a cemetery in August and other acts of vandalism and witchcraft, were remanded for another 10 days by the Magistrates' Court on Monday. The court ordered that the suspects remain in police custody while the investigation continues. [...]
Envoys from Baku and Yerevan prepared to meet in Brussels for talks on Tuesday as thousands of refugees fled Nagorno-Karabakh after Azerbaijan's lightning takeover of the majority ethnic Armenian enclave. Last week, an offensive by Baku's forces established Azerbaijani control over the breakaway region, forcing ethnic Armenian fighters to disarm. Tuesday's meeting in Brussels will [...]
Seychelles' tourism officials expressed their satisfaction at the big turnout for the Food Fest, promoting traditional Creole food, held at Domaine Val de Pres on Sunday and plans to make it a regular event. The event is part of the country's Tourism Festival, which will end on September 30. The aim of the festival is [...]
The Seychelles women's national football team will face Malawi on Monday in a friendly match as part of the African side's training in preparation for the COSAFA women's competition in October. This was revealed by the chief executive of the Seychelles Football Federation (SFF), Dennis Rose, in a recent interview with reporters. Rose said that [...]
The European Union, the United States and other members of the international community said on Tuesday they were following with the "greatest vigilance" the run-up to presidential elections in Madagascar, after disputes over its regularity. Representatives of eight countries and international organisations including the EU, US, France and Japan, said "confidence" in the electoral process [...]
Seychelles’ President Wavel Ramkalawan has pointed out that the United Nations Multidimensional Vulnerability Index (MVI) interim report has not entirely met the needs of small island developing states (SIDS). Ramkalawan was addressing the heads of state and government of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) Leaders Meeting in New York on September 22, which [...]
Seychelles’ President Wavel Ramkalawan held discussions with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sheikh Shakhboot Nahyan Al Nahyan, in New York on Sunday. President Ramkalawan is in New York for the United Nations General Assembly. According to a press release from State House, President Ramkalawan and Sheikh [...]
President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday announced that France would withdraw its ambassador from Niger, followed by the French military contingent in the coming months, a move welcomed by Niger's military leaders as a "step towards sovereignty". Macron's announcement comes two months after a coup in the west African country that ousted the pro-Paris president. "France [...]
A seven-year space voyage comes to its climactic end Sunday when a NASA capsule lands in the desert in the US state of Utah, carrying to Earth the largest asteroid samples ever collected. Scientists have high hopes for the sample, saying it will provide a better understanding of the formation of our solar system and [...]
