Chinese language learners from Seychelles have obtained better facilities to learn about the language and culture with the opening of a language lab from Confucius Institute on Wednesday. A language lab is a facility where students learning a foreign language can access audio and visual materials to help them master the language in an interactive environment. [...]
A Seychellois Paralympics athlete, Gerry Theresine, received a new racing wheelchair on Thursday to better prepare for the upcoming Indian Ocean Islands Games (IOIG) in Madagascar. Theresine received the wheelchair from Seychelles' President Wavel Ramkalawan in a ceremony at State House, in the presence of his mother and representatives of the National Council for the Disabled and his [...]
A new beach soccer stadium will be built in Seychelles to host the 2025 FIFA World Cup Beach Soccer competition that the island nation will host. Seychelles was named as the host for the 13 edition of the competition in 2022 and will become the first African country to host the event. A delegation from [...]
France's star footballer Kylian Mbappe arrived in Cameroon to an ecstatic welcome from fans Thursday for a visit that includes charity work with deaf children and a trip to his father's village. Many among the hundreds who greeted the 24-year-old forward were dressed in his Paris Saint-Germain team's football jersey for the occasion. They excitedly [...]
Twitter threatened to sue Meta just hours after the Instagram parent company launched Threads, an app it hopes will beat out the struggling site owned by Elon Musk. In a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, published by online news outlet Semafor on Thursday, Musk lawyer Alex Spiro accused the company of "unlawful misappropriation of [...]
A group of 20 people are now officially licensed to carry out civil marriage ceremonies in Seychelles for both locals and foreigners. The 20 civil wedding celebrants were presented with their certificates and sworn oaths in a special ceremony on Thursday at the National History Museum. This follows the approval of the Cabinet of [...]
The Seychelles' tourism environmental sustainability levy will be effective as of August 1 with a three-tiered approach, said Vice President Ahmed Afif on Thursday. The levy was approved by the Cabinet of Ministers in its meeting on Wednesday. Afif told reporters that "The government decided after several discussions with all parties to put the levy [...]
Around 18 million doses of the first malaria vaccine will be delivered to 12 African countries by 2025, the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the Vaccine Alliance said Wednesday. "Malaria remains one of Africa’s deadliest diseases, killing nearly half a million children under the age of five every year," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told [...]
Secretary of State Antony Blinken promised Wednesday at a Caribbean summit that the United States was committed to restoring security in Haiti, which has been wracked in overlapping crises of violence and poverty. "The United States shares the commitment felt throughout the region to help the Haitian people shape their future to restore the country's [...]
The European Union (EU) and Seychelles have strong, longstanding diplomatic relations, especially as Seychelles has close historical ties to the EU member state France, given the island nation was first a French colony in the 1700s and its cultural and linguistic roots form part of the Creole nation today, which also has African, Chinese and Indian [...]
