World leaders paid tribute to Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union who died Tuesday in Moscow aged 91. The man who played a major role in ending the Cold War was praised for being a "rare leader" who helped change the course of world history. - Russia - President Vladimir Putin said [...]
Convicts in the Seychelles' prison can volunteer to take part in the rehabilitation programme offered by the facility in collaboration with the Island Development Company (IDC) from the beginning of 2022, said a top official. Through the Phoenix Rehabilitation project, low-risk inmates at the Montagne Posee prison, on the main island of Mahe, have the possibility [...]
Seychelles’ President Wavel Ramkalawan met with two diplomats at State House on Tuesday morning, from Botswana and Saudi Arabia. “I think that it was critical that there are people to people interaction between Botswana and Seychelles,” said the outgoing Botswana High Commissioner, Gobe Pitso, to the press after his farewell visit to President Ramkalawan. Pitso [...]
Intense fighting was raging on Tuesday across the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson occupied by Russia, Kyiv's presidency said, as its troops pressed counter-offensives "in various directions". Most of region of Kherson bordering the Black Sea -- and its provincial capital of the same name -- were seized by Moscow's military at the start of [...]
Eighteen people died Monday after police in Madagascar opened fire on what they called a lynch mob angered at the kidnapping of an albino child, a senior doctor told AFP. Dozens were wounded, some of them seriously. "At the moment, 18 people have died in all, nine on the spot and nine in hospital," said [...]
The latest locally-made movie from film-makers Albert Duncan and Rico Padayachy will premiere on Wednesday, August 31, at the Deepam Cinema in Seychelles' capital of Victoria. Titled ‘Detox’, the 40-minute film tells the story of a single father and the lengths he goes to in trying to help his child to get rid of a [...]
With the aim of promoting one of Seychelles' traditional dances amongst secondary school children, the Creative Seychelles Agency (CSA) on Monday started a two-day workshop teaching the students how to play the Moutya drum. On December 15, 2021, Moutya was added to UNESCO's list of intangible heritage, becoming the first cultural tradition of the island [...]
Officials involved in search and rescue operations, disaster management and maritime assistance services in the Western Indian Ocean are meeting in Seychelles to produce better coordinated efforts in tackling maritime disasters. At a four-day workshop at the Story Hotel on the main island of Mahe, participants from the Seychelles Coast Guard (SCG), Seychelles Civil Aviation [...]
On the final day of the 8th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 8) Summit in Tunis on Sunday, Seychelles’ President Wavel Ramkalawan addressed the plenary session on the topic of peace and stability, calling for “a more holistic approach”. According to a press statement from State House, he “raised concerns on the impact [...]
NASA's most powerful rocket yet is set to blast off Monday on the maiden voyage of a mission to take humans back to the Moon, and eventually to Mars. Fifty years after the last time astronauts set foot on the moon in 1972 as part of the Apollo 17 mission, the space program called Artemis [...]
