The World Bank is keen to open an office in the Seychelles by June 2023, a top official said on Tuesday. The bank's country director, Ida Pswarayi-Riddihough, made the statement to reporters after meeting with Seychelles' President Wavel Ramkalawan. "We are looking to start obviously very small but it will help us to keep [...]
Seychelles and the United States will continue collaboration in maritime security, social and economic development as well as providing more flexibility for the US visa process as a top agenda, the newly accredited American ambassador to Seychelles said. Henry Jardin made the statement to the press after presenting his credentials to President Wavel Ramkalawan on Tuesday at [...]
The Anglican Diocese of Seychelles will celebrate its golden jubilee on March 26 and a series of activities are being organised to commemorate the event. For the pinnacle of the 50th-anniversary celebrations of the Diocese's establishment, Reverend Christine Benoit told SNA that "the Anglican family in Seychelles will meet together for worship at 9.30 a.m. and we will conclude [...]
Malawi faces increased risk of a surge in cholera cases following the devastation caused by Cyclone Freddy that has destroyed water systems and toilets, the health ministry warned Monday. The country was already battling its deadliest cholera outbreak on record when the storm landed last week, causing mudslides and flooding, killing 476 and displacing nearly [...]
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping were set to hold a second day of talks on Tuesday, as the internationally isolated Russian leader said he was open to discussing China's proposals on the fighting in Ukraine. The sit-down was to be unexpectedly mirrored in Kyiv, where Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was en route to meet [...]
More people in Seychelles are looking to purchase electric vehicles rather than those with internal combustion engines, figures from the Seychelles Licensing Authority (SLA) show. According to the figures from the SLA, at the end of 2022, Seychelles had a total of 365 all-electric vehicles registered. Out of that figure, 57 were registered in 2022 [...]
Seychellois tourism expert Alain St. Ange, the former President of the African Tourism Board, Vice President of the World Tourism Network, former Minister of Tourism of Seychelles and former parliamentarian, has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for Promotion of the Travel Trade at the ITB Berlin travel trade fair this month. At the PATWA [...]
The Seychelles Supreme Court sentenced two foreign nationals last week for the importation of cocaine, said the police in a press release on Friday. According to the police, a 58-year-old businessman from Nigeria, Patrick Ikechukwu Uwaoma, was sentenced to 30 years after he was found guilty of the importation of cocaine. Uwaoma, who was residing [...]
Lagos governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has won his bid for re-election, Nigeria's electoral commission said Monday, as votes are counted following local elections marred by violence and vote buying. Governors are powerful positions in Nigeria, with some controlling state budgets larger than those of several African nations. Saturday's election for 28 governors and more than 900 [...]
With water scarce in some places, in excess elsewhere, polluted or otherwise problematic, the United Nations addresses this week a global crisis that has been long overlooked even as the welfare of billions of people is at stake. "It's the first time in 46 years that the world comes together on the issue of water," [...]
