A German male national who was reported missing on Silhouette Island earlier this week has been found, the Seychelles Police said in a communique on Wednesday. According to the communique, the 63-year-old was found by police officers looking for him on the beach not far from the tourism establishment where he was staying. The German [...]
Seychelles expects to carry out an assessment of its food control system in the coming months to make it in line with internationally recognised standards. In order to carry out the assessment, producers of food and food safety officers in the island nation are attending a five-day workshop funded by the European Union for the [...]
A number of people who have been actively involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Seychelles for many years were rewarded in a ceremony on Friday, December 1, as Seychelles joined other countries to commemorate World AIDS Day. The ceremony honoured those who are fighting against the disease and those who have lost their lives to [...]
Over a hundred students graduated from the University of Seychelles on Thursday. Amongst the cohort is Dainise Quatre, the first Seychellois woman to be certified under the Western Indian Ocean Certification of Marine Protected Area (MPA) Professionals for marine field operators, who graduated with a bachelor's degree in environmental sciences. Quatre is 29 years old and the [...]
European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday floated the idea of a "specialised court" to put Russia's top officials on trial over the war in Ukraine. On the ground, Russia said it had captured a few settlements in eastern Ukraine, eager for a win after a series of setbacks since invading its pro-Western [...]
Delegates from nearly 200 countries meet in Montreal next week to hammer out a new global biodiversity deal to protect ecosystems and species from further human destruction. The meeting follows crucial climate change talks in Egypt in November, where leaders failed to forge any breakthroughs on scaling down fossil fuels and slashing planet-warming emissions. Observers [...]
The second phase of two coastal rehabilitation projects in Seychelles will kick off next year, while the island nation eyes a new blue barrier concept in its fight in mitigating coastal erosion, said a top official. The senior climate adaptation officer at the Climate Change Division, Anie Simeon, told SNA on Wednesday that this will [...]
The illegal possession of firearms case involving prominent Seychellois businessman Mukesh Valabhji and his wife Laura, a lawyer, and three others will not be heard in the Supreme Court of Seychelles on December 1 as initially planned. The Valabhji couple filed a motion for postponement of the trial in the firearms and prevention of terrorism [...]
Half the world's democratic countries are experiencing an erosion of democracy, intensified by war in Ukraine and economic crisis, an international think tank said in a report on Wednesday. "We're seeing extraordinarily severe headwinds for democracy now, intensified by the political fallout from the economic crisis that started with the pandemic and the economic consequences [...]
Seychelles joined 47 countries to support the Global Methane Pledge at COP27, vowing to cut down on the island nation's methane gas production significantly by 2030. Launched by the European Union and the United States at COP26, the pledge seeks to cut the level of anthropogenic methane emissions by at least 30 percent by 2030 [...]
