African leaders are expected in Ukraine on Friday in a self-professed bid to broker peace between Kyiv and Moscow, despite three presidents dropping out and Ukraine's counteroffensive overshadowing the mission. Four presidents and three representatives are due to hold talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv before heading to Saint Petersburg on Saturday to [...]
Howling gales and crashing waves pounded the coastline of India and Pakistan on Thursday as Cyclone Biparjoy made landfall, with more than 175,000 people fleeing the storm's predicted path. Indian forecasters have warned that Biparjoy, whose name means "disaster" in Bengali, was likely to devastate homes and tear down power lines as it barrels through [...]
The Islands Development Company (IDC) has launched expressions of interest for both foreign and local investors to present plans for tourism establishments on the Seychelles' islands of Coetivy and Assumption. The state-owned company's chief executive, Glenny Savy, told reporters on Wednesday afternoon that the time is right as "IDC has now acquired a lease from the [...]
Greece on Thursday pursued a grim search for survivors a day after a fishing boat overloaded with migrants capsized and sank in the Ionian Sea, with the number of victims feared to reach into the hundreds. As relatives in the migrants' home countries frantically sought for details of their loved ones, the coastguard said 78 [...]
Seychelles is seeking to establish a law that will domesticate three codes set up under the Joint Management Area, which the island nation shares equal jurisdiction with Mauritius, said a top government official. The statement was made by the Minister for Fisheries and the Blue Economy, Jean Francois Ferrari, on Tuesday, during his presentation on [...]
Seychelles' President Wavel Ramkalawan held discussions with various senior government officials and visited tourism establishments as part of his state visit to Maldives. State House said on Wednesday that Ramkalawan met with the Vice President of Maldives, Faisal Naseem, the Speaker of the Parliament of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed and the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Abdulla [...]
Seychelles' Takamaka Rum wins two gold awards at the Rum and Cachaca Awards competition, an achievement the distillery describes as incredible. Rum and Cachaça Masters is one of The Spirit Business' competitions which focuses on finding and rewarding the finest rum and cachaça brands on the world stage. According to The Spirit Business, "rum remains the [...]
Italy prepared to say farewell to former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi Wednesday, with thousands of people expected at the billionaire's state funeral in Milan. The ceremony for Berlusconi, who died Monday aged 86, will be held in the city's Gothic Duomo cathedral and shown live on screens in the square. Berlusconi, adored and loathed by [...]
Infringement of intellectual property rights and copyright as well as limited access to raw materials are among the challenges that Seychellois artists and artisans brought forth in a first consultative meeting to draft a status of the artist law for Seychelles. The first of a series of meetings was held on Tuesday for artists and cultural [...]
Donald Trump pleaded not guilty Tuesday to dozens of criminal counts of mishandling some of the US government's most sensitive secrets and scheming to prevent their return, in a historic first court appearance as a federal defendant. The former president -- and the favorite to fight next year's election for the Republicans -- gave himself [...]
