The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday extended for one year long-standing sanctions on Sudan, ignoring pleas from Khartoum to lift the measures. Sudan has repeatedly called for the world body to scrap the sanctions, and an arms embargo, imposed during conflict in the country's restive Darfur region in 2005. Last month, Russia's top diplomat [...]
France's Senate voted Thursday to raise the retirement age by two years to 64, as the government moves to overhaul the country's pensions system in the face of strong opposition from labour unions. The conservative-dominated legislative body voted in favour of a decisive article to raise the age of retirement by 201 votes to 115. [...]
Seychellois scientist Marie-May Jeremie is the first woman from Seychelles to be elected as the president of the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association (WIOMSA). Jeremie, the current chief executive of the Seychelles Conservation and Climate Adaptation Trust (SeyCCAT), was elected by the WIOMSA 8th board of trustees at the association's 44th board meeting on February [...]
For the first time in its operational history, the Seychelles' tanker fleet made a profit of $25 million for the year 2022, said a top official of the Seychelles Petroleum Company (SEYPEC) on Wednesday. The chief executive of SEYPEC, Sarah Romain, made the statement to the press while providing an update on the company's performance in [...]
The President of Seychelles, Wavel Ramkalawan, has called for the adoption of a multidimensional vulnerability index (MVI) for small island developing states (SIDS) and vulnerable countries within the United Nations framework and international financial institutions.Ramkalawan made the statement on Tuesday at a high-level side event under the theme "Achieving a fair and complete measurement of vulnerability: perspectives from [...]
Switzerland remains opposed to exporting arms to war-torn Ukraine, the famously neutral country's President Alain Berset said Tuesday on the sidelines of meetings at the United Nations. Switzerland bars re-export of Swiss weaponry to nations at war, but the issue of the country's long tradition of neutrality has been under debate since Russia's full-scale invasion [...]
Seychelles was recently accepted into the International Ombudsman Institute (IOI) with the hope that it will bring further opportunities for the progress and development of the work of the Ombudsman. Founded in 1978 is the only international organisation that brings together more than 200 independent ombudsman institutions on a local, regional, and national level from [...]
Women are the primary victims of wars and conflict, yet they remain severely underrepresented at diplomatic negotiations, officials told the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday. On the eve of International Women's Day on March 8, Sima Bahous, executive director of UN Women, called on the international community to do more to protect the lives, [...]
More rescuers and heavy machinery will be sent to Indonesia’s disaster-hit Serasan Island to search for dozens still missing after a deadly landslide, a disaster official said on Tuesday. The landslide struck Monday in the remote Natuna region between Borneo and peninsular Malaysia. Poor weather and downed communication lines have complicated rescue efforts on the [...]
Top officials from key law enforcement bodies in Seychelles are expected to acquire a better understanding of human rights issues through a half-day training course on Tuesday, said a top official. The police, immigration and prison officers are among the participants in the training focused on the Seychellois charter of fundamental human rights and freedoms in [...]
