Angola said on Thursday it would leave OPEC over a disagreement on production quotas following the oil cartel's decision last month to further slash output next year. Mineral Resources and Petroleum minister Diamantino Azevedo said that the decision was not taken lightly, but OPEC membership no longer served the African country's interests. "We feel that [...]
France's parliament has passed a bill that paves the way towards human remains contained in its museum collections being repatriated to their countries of origin for burial. The law, which received its final approval in the upper house Senate late Monday, is the culmination of years of debate on the ethics of keeping human body [...]
The Israeli army said Thursday it bombed scores of targets in the Gaza Strip as diplomats pressed on with efforts to halt the fighting that Hamas says has killed 20,000 people in the Palestinian territory. United Nations relief chief Martin Griffiths called the surging death toll a "tragic and shameful milestone" as the UN Security [...]
The Seychelles Licensing Authority (SLA) is piloting digital driving licences to give drivers another alternative if they cannot have the physical ones available, a top official said on Friday. Ronny Antat, chief executive of the SLA told reporters that "It is due to popular demand that the SLA has decided to introduce a digital driving [...]
Government agencies, ministries and businesses in Seychelles will now include aspects of climate change in their planning and strategic policies, a top official said on Tuesday. The Minister for Agriculture, Climate Change and Environment, Flavien Joubert, told SNA that this follows Seychelles' participation in the 28th Conference of Parties (COP28), held in Dubai from December 1 [...]
Seychelles is looking for ways to ensure that octopus fisheries remain sustainable and recent studies have been done to learn more about the species. People involved in octopus fisheries and production got an overview of the recent studies and were able to ask questions and recommend actions that can be taken to protect the [...]
The World Bank said Wednesday it had released $250 million to support bankrupt Sri Lanka's tough economic reforms following last year's financial crisis. Sri Lanka defaulted on its $46 billion external debt in April 2022 after running out of foreign exchange to finance essential imports of food, fuel and medicines, with civil unrest ousting then-president [...]
People in the Democratic Republic of Congo were voting Wednesday in a high-stakes election pitting the incumbent President Felix Tshisekedi against a fragmented opposition, whose leaders denounced "chaos" and "irregularities". The first polling stations in the east of the vast central African nation, which straddles two time zones, opened almost on time, shortly after 6:00 [...]
Seychelles' participation in the "Operation Prosperity Guardian", a multinational force set up to provide maritime security in the Red Sea is only in the sharing and receiving of information, said Vice President Ahmed Afif on Wednesday. The participation of Seychelles in the newly set up mission was announced by the United States Secretary of Defence, [...]
Seychelles will compete in seven sporting disciplines at the upcoming African Games, scheduled to take place from 8 to 23 March next year in Ghana. The 13th African Games previously known, as the All-Africa Games, will see the participation of 53 nations and Seychelles will be present with a delegation of over 50 athletes. As [...]
