Seychelles has become a popular destination in the Middle East and Europe and the Emirates Airline is bringing passengers across the world to the island nation, said a top official of the airline. The statement was made by Emirates Airline divisional senior vice president, Sheikh Majid Al Mualla after a meeting with Seychelles' President Wavel Ramkalawan [...]
Enhancing emergency coordination at ministries, departments, and agencies level, and turning early warnings into effective actions are the focus of technical assistance being provided by the World Bank to Seychelles' Disaster Risk Management Division (DRMD). The assistance is for the operationalisation of the National Integrated Emergency Management Plan (NIEMP), which provides a consistent framework to which [...]
Crisis-hit Lebanon marks two years Thursday since a massive explosion ripped through Beirut, with victims' relatives planning protest marches as they keep demanding truth and justice. The portside blast of haphazardly stored ammonium nitrate, one of the biggest ever non-nuclear explosions, killed more than 200 people, wounded thousands more and decimated vast areas of the [...]
Around five percent of people who have had Covid-19 develop long-lasting problems with their sense of smell or taste, a large study said Thursday, potentially contributing to the burden of long Covid. A lost sense of smell has been a hallmark of contracting coronavirus since the early days of the pandemic, but it has not [...]
A group of 137 Seychellois students is expected to start tertiary education this year, figures from the Agency for National Human Resource Development (ANHRD) show. The principal scholarship administrator, Barbara Kilindo, told SNA that out of the students who have qualified for a government scholarship in 2022, 64 will be going overseas whereas 73 have [...]
The OPEC+ group of major oil exporters meets Wednesday to discuss its output strategy after US President Joe Biden lobbied Saudi Arabia to boost production to tame energy-fuelled inflation. The cartel led by Saudi Arabia and Russia has resisted US pressure to ramp up production significantly so far after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine sent oil [...]
Aeroflot is planning to resume flights to Seychelles within the next couple of months with some technical details still under discussion so as to finalise all the arrangements for the direct air link, according to the Russian Embassy in the island nation. "There is an air service agreement in force between Seychelles and Russia and the [...]
Seychelles and China have reiterated their commitments to ensure that projects of mutual interest that are discussed materialise, State House said on Tuesday. The commitment was made in a meeting between Seychelles' President Wavel Ramkalawan and a special representative of the Chinese government on Africa Affairs, Ambassador Xu Jinghu at State House. Jinghu and her high-level delegation [...]
ASEAN ministers will push to ramp up pressure on Myanmar's junta at a regional meeting Wednesday in Cambodia as the US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan threatens to overshadow proceedings with tensions between Washington and Beijing soaring. The 10-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) -- which has spearheaded so far fruitless efforts [...]
China said Tuesday that the United States will "pay the price" if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visits Taiwan during her Asia trip. Pelosi was in Malaysia, the second stop in a tour that has sparked rage in Beijing after reports of a potential Taipei visit. China considers Taiwan its territory and has indicated through repeated [...]