The President of Seychelles, Wavel Ramkalawan, will join other heads of state and government for the upcoming World Government Summit in Dubai, scheduled for February 13-15, State House said on Friday. Ramkalawan will be accompanied by the Minister for Finance, National Planning and Trade, Naadir Hassan, and the Minister for Investment, Entrepreneurship and Industry, Devika Vidot. The [...]
Seychelles' Islands Development Company (IDC) is planning to build an airstrip on Desnoeufs, an outlying island, to facilitate the transportation of its staff, the chief executive of the company said on Wednesday. Glenny Savy told reporters in a press conference that this is a project that will get underway soon on one of the main [...]
Seychelles' Islands Development Company (IDC) is planning to build an airstrip on Desnouefs, an outlying island, to facilitate the transportation of its staff, the chief executive of the company said on Wednesday. Glenny Savy told reporters in a press conference that this is a project that will get underway soon on one of the main [...]
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky received a hero's welcome in Brussels on Thursday as he lobbied star-struck EU leaders to speed the delivery of modern weapons to halt a Russian offensive. Two weeks ahead of the first anniversary of Europe's most brutal conflict since the 1940s, Zelensky embarked on only his second foreign trip since Moscow [...]
Hopes were fading Thursday for rescuing survivors of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria, which has killed over 17,500 people in one of the deadliest tremors in decades. Bitter cold has hampered the four-day search of thousands of flattened buildings and the 72-hour mark that experts consider the most likely period to save lives has [...]
Seychelles is expected to benefit from training and technology under a $30 million global project in 2023 to improve its early warning system for disasters, according to a top environment official. The United Nations-funded project is aimed at small island developing states (SIDS) like Seychelles as well as least developed countries (LDCs), which together are the [...]
As a small island developing state (SID) of 115 islands in the western Indian Ocean with a population of approximately 100,000, Seychelles' foreign policy is limited to the number of embassies it has abroad. However, this country is greatly determined to have its voice heard on the world stage and is always at the forefront [...]
The first batch of white shrimp grown in Seychelles is expected to hit the local market around April said the chief executive of the Islands Development Company (DC), Glenny Savy, on Wednesday. The IDC is mass producing shrimps on Coetivy, one of Seychelles outer islands. "Unfortunately, the first batch will not be enough for the [...]
Sri Lankan police told AFP on Wednesday they are investigating ousted president Gotabaya Rajapaksa over a hidden cash stockpile uncovered when protesters stormed his former residence last year. Rajapaksa presided over an unprecedented economic crisis that saw the island nation's 22 million people suffer through months of food, fuel and pharmaceutical shortages. He fled the [...]
President Joe Biden urged unity and touted a blue-collar economic resurgence Tuesday in a rousing State of the Union speech before a raucous Congress that doubled as a bid to persuade voters he still has what it takes to seek reelection at age 80. The Democrat, who has been written off even by some supporters [...]
