The Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA) has received a new 9-metre boat from the European Union to service the experimental marine cages that are operated as a component of the Aquaculture Department’s ongoing research programme. In a press release on Tuesday, SFA said that the vessel was handed over on October 5 when an EU delegation [...]
All the infrastructure work on La Gogue dam in Seychelles is expected to be completed in November, before it becomes fully operational in the first quarter of 2023. A delegation, which included President Wavel Ramkalawan and the environment minister, Flavien Joubert, visited the facility on Tuesday. Erna Victor, the project coordinator at the Public Utilities [...]
Australia said it would no longer recognise west Jerusalem as Israel's capital Tuesday, a policy reversal that prompted a curt rebuke from the Jewish state but was cheered by Palestinians. Foreign Minister Penny Wong said the city's status should be decided by Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, unwinding a contentious decision by the previous conservative government. In [...]
Karim Benzema said he had become more ambitious with age as the Real Madrid and France striker won the Ballon d'Or on Monday, and dedicated his trophy "to the people". Benzema, who turns 35 in December, the day after the World Cup final, is five months older than Lionel Messi was when the Argentine won [...]
A crew of 29 members left the Seychelles Coast Guard (SCG) base on Mahe on Tuesday on the ship Saya de Malha on a first expedition to tackle fishing aggregate devices (FADs) in the southern groups of islands of the Seychelles archipelago. FADs are man-made floating wooden structures with hanging nets to attract fish used extensively [...]
A high-level delegation went on a two-day official mission to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) this month with the aim of exploring means of modernising and transforming the public service in Seychelles by learning through knowledge exchange and from best practices. According to a press release from the Ministry of Finance, National Planning and Trade, areas [...]
Telecommunications company Cable & Wireless Seychelles has launched an eSIM service for its customers as new technologies have allowed SIM cards to be digitised. At the launching of the eSIM, Malika Romain, the product and services executive said that "over the years, SIM cards have gotten smaller and smaller, from the size of a credit [...]
The United States warned Monday it would take action against companies and nations working with Iran's drone program after Russia used the imports for deadly kamikaze strikes in Kyiv. "Anyone doing business with Iran that could have any link to UAVs or ballistic missile developments or the flow of arms from Iran to Russia should [...]
Seychelles has reached a significant milestone with the arrival of over 258,000 tourists from January to-date, surpassing the best-case scenario for visitor arrivals this year, a top official said on Monday. In January this year, during its strategic marketing meeting, the tourism department outlined that the country was expecting the arrival of 218,000 visitors as [...]
Ethiopia's government on Monday recommitted to peace talks over Tigray but did not address African Union appeals for a ceasefire, vowing instead to carry out "defensive measures" including seizing airports and other federal facilities in the region. "These measures are necessitated not only by the repeated attacks of the TPLF (Tigray People's Liberation Front) but [...]
