Joe Biden's choice of Angola as his first trip to Africa as president underscores the influence of the oil-rich country as the focus of one of the biggest US infrastructure projects on the continent in a counterpoint to China's investments. Biden's October 13-15 visit, which comes just months before his term ends, will centre on [...]
World leaders urged Israel against a full scale invasion of Lebanon after it's army said it began limited ground operations in the latest step in its showdown with Hezbollah. The two arch-foes have engaged in low-level clashes since the outbreak of war in Gaza, but tensions have skyrocketed in recent weeks as Israel shifted its [...]
Seychelles and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have reached a staff-level agreement on the third review under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and the Resilience and Sustainability Facility (RSF) arrangements. The IMF mission is in Seychelles to conduct the review under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF), which was agreed in May 2023. The last review [...]
The Department of the Blue Economy in Seychelles has started a capacity-building programme to prepare technicians and specialists for the domestication of the United Nations Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction Treaty, said a top official on Monday. The director general of the Department, Chrissant Barbe, told reporters that this is the next step after Seychelles [...]
The Confucius Institute of Seychelles confirmed there are around 3,600 Seychellois who have accessed its services over the past 11 years during a ceremony to commemorate its 20th anniversary of the first such institute being set up in Uzbekistan. The director of the Confucius Institute in Seychelles, Zhang Jianmei, told SNA that over the years [...]
The Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS) and the Seychelles Bankers Association (SBA) have joined forces to hold an awareness campaign from October to December to educate the public on how to avoid the pitfalls of fraudulent financial transactions. The two entities revealed in a press conference on Monday that this initiative comes after they noticed an [...]
The head of an African Union delegation that was in Seychelles to conduct a humanitarian mission, has commended the island nation for its exemplary disaster preparedness and response efforts, specifically regarding the December 2023 flooding disaster. According to a press statement from the Ministry of Internal Affairs on Monday, the delegation was led by Mahlaba [...]
Israel carried out an air strike on a Beirut apartment block on Monday, a Lebanese security source said, killing four people in its first such raid on the heart of the city since the outbreak of the Gaza war last year. Israel has turned its focus from Gaza to Lebanon in recent days, carrying out [...]
The death toll from powerful storm Helene jumped to at least 93 on Sunday, with one county in North Carolina alone reporting 30 deaths, authorities said, as rescuers battled to reach people in need across the southeastern United States. The storm response took on a political tinge after President Joe Biden and the two candidates [...]
With typhoon Yagi battering Asia, storm Boris drenching parts of Europe, extreme flooding in the Sahel and hurricane Helene racing towards Florida, September so far has been a very wet month. But while scientists can link some extreme weather events directly to human-caused global warming, it remains too early to draw clear conclusions about this [...]
