The United Nations mission in Mali officially ended its 10-year deployment in the country on Monday, in a pullout ordered by Mali's military leaders. The symbolic ceremony marks the official end of the mission, the mission's spokesperson Fatoumata Kaba said, even though some elements remain in the country. "We are leaving... proud of what we [...]
India's top court upheld on Monday a move by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government to revoke the limited autonomy of Muslim-majority Kashmir, where an insurgency has raged for decades, and ordered elections within a year. The 2019 declaration was "a culmination of the process of integration and as such is a valid exercise of power", [...]
The Red Cross Society of Seychelles (RCSS) has assisted around 500 people who were affected after an explosion in a storage area for explosives at a quarrying company in the Providence Industrial area and flooding and landslide from heavy rainfall in northern Mahe on Thursday. The RCSS, whose secretariat is also based at the Providence [...]
The World Bank is looking into ways to offer help to Seychelles after the devastating effects of the heavy rainfall and explosions that happened last Thursday, a top official said on Monday. The executive director for a group of 22 countries, including Seychelles, from the World Bank Group, Floribert Ngaruko, made the statement to [...]
The World Health Organization's executive board on Sunday adopted a resolution calling for immediate, unimpeded humanitarian access to Gaza after the WHO chief said medics were facing unimaginable conditions. The 34 countries on the board adopted the resolution by consensus, even though some, notably the United States, had reservations about the dearth of references to [...]
West African leaders met in Nigeria's capital Abuja on Sunday for talks on their region in deepening crisis, after four countries fell under military rule and with risks growing from Sahel jihadist conflicts. After coups in Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea and Niger since 2020, the Economic Community of West African States or ECOWAS saw member [...]
Robert Payet, the Seychellois owner of the 5-star hotel Le Duc de Praslin Hotel & Villas won the Entrepreneur of the Year award for 2023 at the Business Awards ceremony organised by the Seychelles Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) on December 2. Le Duc de Praslin also won the award for Best Large Tourism Establishment, [...]
The United Nations Security Council met behind closed doors on Friday to discuss the fast-escalating row between South American neighbors Venezuela and Guyana over a disputed oil-rich region. World leaders called for calm as Venezuela decried joint US-Guyana military exercises as a "provocation" and vowed to push ahead with its "recovery" of the Essequibo region, [...]
Seychellois bodybuilder Wallace Dorasamy has once again made it big on the international stage, this time winning gold at the NPC (National Physique Committee) Worldwide African Pro Qualifier held in Cape Town. Dorasamy competed in the Bodybuilding and Men's Classic Physique categories in the event at the Corpus Christi Panorama in Cape Town, South Africa [...]
The coco de mer is the world's largest nut, and is endemic to Seychelles, a group of 115 islands in the western Indian Ocean. It grows naturally only on two of Seychelles' islands, Praslin, and its neighboring Curieuse island – terrestrial and marine parks. On Praslin, it is found mainly at the Vallee de Mai [...]
