A harvest policy will be included in all future fisheries management plans in Seychelles, said a top government official on Thursday. The announcement followed the Cabinet of Minister's approval of the Harvest Strategy Policy and the management standards for Seychelles' fisheries on Wednesday. The policy expects to underpin objectives to ensure that individual fisheries in [...]
With the aim of creating an opportunity for Seychellois craftspeople to display their products as well as provide business opportunities for them, a four-day exhibition of local artisanal works is being held at the Carrefour des Arts in the capital Victoria. Under the theme "Reviv Lartizana Seselwa" – Creole for "Relive Seychellois Craftwork"- the exhibition was organised by the National Arts and Crafts Council (NACC) in collaboration [...]
Ethiopia's federal government on Friday declared a "state of emergency" as violent clashes escalate between the national army and local fighters from the northern region of Amhara. "It has become necessary to declare a state of emergency as a situation has emerged where it has become difficult to control this unacceptable movement under current law," [...]
Former president Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday to criminal charges that he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election and defraud the American people. Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, entered his plea during a nearly 30-minute hearing at the same Washington courthouse where hundreds of his supporters [...]
All parties involved in the spanner crab fishing sector in Seychelles were updated on work being carried out by the local fishing authority in a workshop on Thursday. The workshop is part of a collaboration with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) under the International Climate Initiative (IKI) grant. Participants [...]
On the banks of the Yongding River west of Beijing on Thursday, Chen Xiaoyuan stared at the remains of a bridge that once led to his village. Cleanup has begun after the region's worst rainfall in years battered northern China, killing at least twenty people, destroying infrastructure and deluging swathes of Beijing and its surrounding [...]
A new ant species named Ponera adumbrans, which means obscuring or silhouetting in Latin, has been discovered on two islands of Seychelles; Silhouette and Mahe. According to the authors of a study in the journal "Organisms Diversity & Evolution," the name refers to the obscure origin of this species in the Malagasy region and the type of [...]
Pope Francis on Wednesday urged Europe to find "courageous courses of peace" to end the war in Ukraine as he opened a five-day visit to Portugal for a major Catholic youth festival. The 86-year-old pontiff has repeatedly called for peace in Ukraine and has sought to play a mediating role, though his efforts have yet [...]
Donation of technical equipment made to the Seychelles Police Force by the British High Commission is set to boost the training capability of future officers. The technical equipment will be used as part of the ongoing implementation of the Strategic Review of Policing launched in June 2022. The donation consists of digital forensic technology, satellite phones, laptops, cameras, and new smart board [...]
Ivory Coast's nationalist former president Henri Konan Bedie, who had not excluded the possibility of a return to power even in his latter days, has died aged 89, his party said. The "Ivory Coast Democratic Party-African Democratic Rally (PDCI-RDA) is deeply saddened" to announce the "sudden death" of Bedie in hospital in Abidjan Tuesday, it [...]
