Two participants from Seychelles leave for India to take part in the 10th Young Chef Olympiad 2024 organised by the International Institute of Hotel Management (IIHM) and the International Hospitality Council of London. Accompanied by a member of the Seychelles Tourism Academy (STA), Team Seychelles, which includes Melissa Adelaide and chef Antoine Simeon, got their sending off and their airfares in [...]
The Grand Anse and Perseverance districts on the main island of Mahe received donations as part of the Adopt a District programme that was launched in October 2023's Consuls Conference. The first donations were made in a ceremony at the Foreign Affairs headquarters at Maison Queau de Quincy on Tuesday. As Mauritania's consul to Seychelles, Ebe Babah, [...]
Israelis on Tuesday mourned and demanded answers over the army's biggest single-day losses since ground operations in Gaza started amid growing pressure on the government to end the conflict. Twenty-one of the 24 troops killed on Monday were reservists slain "when a squad of terrorists surprised the force" with fire from a rocket-propelled grenade, military [...]
Burkina Faso, governed by a military regime, on Tuesday opened its first mining waste processing facility in one of Africa's foremost gold-producing states, an AFP journalist reported. The inauguration of the facility in the Kossodo industrial zone just east of the capital Ouagadougou was attended by transitional military leader Captain Ibrahim Traore. "The machines were [...]
The Electoral Commission of Seychelles announced on Monday that electoral boundaries will not change for the 2025 elections. The statement was made by the chairperson of the Commission, Danny Lucas, who along with his top officials made a visit to President Wavel Ramkalawan and presented their report. "The first phase of the exercise, whereby we [...]
The chairman of Central Common Cold Store (CCCS), Peter Sinon, congratulated the facility for having effectively and successfully climbed a steep learning curve in the initial year of operations in Seychelles. Sinon made the statement at the annual general meeting of the CCCS last week in which he said that one of the achievements was that the company [...]
The Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group (ESAAMLG) has partnered with Seychelles to beef up the pool of in-country assessors who can ensure that progress is being made to prevent money laundering in the country. The secretary of state for finance, Patrick Payet, who chairs the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Finance of Terrorism (AMLCFT) [...]
Ivory Coast slipped to the brink of a humiliating exit from the Africa Cup of Nations as the hosts suffered a 4-0 thrashing by Equatorial Guinea in their final Group A game in Abidjan on Monday. Emilio Nsue scored a double to follow up his hat-trick against Guinea-Bissau as Equatorial Guinea finished top of the [...]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the opening of a temple Monday heralded a "new era" for India, at a ceremony that embodies the triumph of his muscular Hindu nationalist politics, galvanising loyalists ahead of elections this year. "Breaking the shackles of slavery, the country should rise, taking lessons from the past," Modi said, speaking outside [...]
Fighting raged across Gaza and Israeli units raided the West Bank on Sunday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has faced growing domestic criticism, rejected calls for post-war "Palestinian sovereignty". Alongside fierce fighting in southern Gaza and across the besieged territory, strikes in Syria and Iraq raised fears of a wider conflagration. Hamas-run Gaza's health [...]
