A new book "The Magic of Seychelles Cuisine and Stories from the "Paradise on Earth" by the honorary consul general of Seychelles in Bulgaria, Maxim Behar, was recognised as one of the best in the world for 2023 by the international Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2023. Behar, the owner and CEO of an award-winning European [...]
President Andry Rajoelina took the oath in a packed stadium on Saturday to start a new term as Madagascar's leader, rebuffing an opposition boycott and international concerns over the island's future. In front of six African presidents in the crowd of 50,000, the 49-year-old party organiser-turned-politician vowed to act with "integrity" to lift the country [...]
The Seychelles National Assembly on Thursday ratified the provisional application of the partnership agreement between the European Union and its member states and that of the Organisation of the African, Caribbean and Pacific states (OACP). Seychelles signed the Samoa Agreement, which is a framework for the relations between the European Union (EU) and the Organisation [...]
Niger's deposed president Mohamed Bazoum must be freed immediately from detention, where he has been held since a July 26 coup, the court of the West African bloc, ECOWAS, ordered on Friday. The court called for his "immediate and unconditional release" and ordered that Bazoum be reinstated, according to the judge in the case heard [...]
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday blocked 50 billion euros ($55 billion) in EU aid for Ukraine, after leaders side-stepped his opposition to agree to open talks with Kyiv on joining the bloc. A crunch summit in Brussels broke up after a day of wrangling as the Hungarian authoritarian leader refused to greenlight funding [...]
Discussions on how the government of the United Arab Emirates can offer special assistance to Seychelles following the flooding and landslide incidents as well as the CCCL explosion in the Providence Industrial Area started in a meeting of President Wavel Ramkalawan and a UAE delegation on Thursday. According to State House, the delegation led by the [...]
The reconstruction of houses damaged on December 7 in an explosion at the Providence Industrial Estate and those damaged by landslides after heavy rainfall on the same day will amount to SCR100 million ($7.5 million) to SCR200 million ($15 million), Seychelles President Wavel Ramkalawan said on Thursday. Ramkalwan made the statement in a live press [...]
A possible visa waiver agreement between Kuwait and Seychelles and creating an air link so that there can be more travel between the two countries, are part of the discussion held between the Ambassador of Kuwait to Seychelles and President Wavel Ramkalawan on Thursday. Mubarak Mohammad Alsehaijan paid a courtesy call on Ramkalawan at State House. [...]
Israel bombed Gaza on Thursday in its war against Hamas militants as a top White House adviser travelled to Jerusalem with a rift growing over civilian casualties. The war, now in its third month, began after the Palestinian group's unprecedented October 7 attacks on Israel that Israeli officials say killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians. [...]
Seychelles and China will seek to enhance their cooperation and traditional friendship, said the newly accredited Chinese Ambassador to Seychelles, Lin Nan. The new ambassador presented her credentials to President Wavel Ramkalawan at State House on Thursday. "We have discussed projects that are advancing steadily such as tourism, fisheries, Blue Economy, education and health and many [...]