Seychellois Olsen Vidot, a former politician credited for spearheading community groups for senior citizens, people with disabilities, and children, was laid to rest on Saturday. Vidot, aged 68, passed away earlier this week. He is survived by his wife Jeanne D'Arc, and daughter Elsia. His funeral service was held at the Our Lady of Seven Sorrows [...]
Seychelles' President Wavel Ramkalawan has called for greater global integration and the need to also address issues such as embargoes. "Such limitations severely hinder scientific progress and impede the advancement of technology and innovation. In addition, they cause untold suffering to ordinary citizens. A case in point is that of our host country. I take this opportunity [...]
The youth will be placed in the driving seat when it comes to planning and implementing education reform initiatives is a resolution taken by delegates at a Youth Education Summit held in Seychelles on Friday. The summit, under the theme "Negotiating a new education landscape," sought to build on the World Transforming Education Summit that [...]
After almost one year of assessing the food control system of Seychelles, a number of recommendations are now being finalised and will be presented to the government for necessary actions. The assessment was done by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), and focal persons from each of their respective authorities were done before work started [...]
The Maldives stands at a geopolitical crossroads ahead of its presidential runoff vote with the frontrunner, a former construction minister, set on demolishing India's influence and building stronger ties with China. The archipelago nation, better known for its upmarket beach resorts and celebrity vacationers, sits in a strategically vital position in the middle of the [...]
Emergency teams on Friday kept up their search for the thousands still posted as missing from the tsunami-sized flash flood that swept the Libyan port city of Derna, killing at least 4,000 people. The enormous surge of water burst two upstream dams late Sunday and reduced Derna to an apocalyptic wasteland where entire city blocks [...]
The Covid-19 pandemic caused a sharp slowdown in the fight to end child poverty, with 333 million children still living in extreme poverty, according to a report published Wednesday. The report from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Bank found that the pandemic led to the abolition of extreme poverty for 30 [...]
Seychelles will host the 19th Indian Ocean Colloquium on HIV/AIDS, hepatitis and addictology from November 13-14 under the theme "HIV at the heart of integrated, accessible care," said a top official on Thursday. The announcement was made by the chairperson of the National AIDS committee, Dr Anne Gabriel, who said that it is now Seychelles' turn to [...]
The tiny Italian island of Lampedusa struggled Thursday to cope with a surge in migrant boats from North Africa after numbers peaked at 7,000 people -- equivalent to the entire local population. The local reception centre, built to house fewer than 400 people, was overwhelmed with men, women and children forced to sleep outside on [...]
Two Seychellois youths won second and third prizes in the "My Dream" theme painting competition for African youths co-hosted by the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) and the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO). Nathalie Joseph and Angela Marzocchi were given their prizes in a ceremony on Wednesday at the Chinese Embassy in the presence of [...]
