President Cyril Ramaphosa rolled out the red carpet for South Africa's women on Wednesday, saying they deserved to be paid as much as their male counterparts after they won their first Africa Cup of Nations. South Africa beat tournament hosts Morocco 2-1 in the final on Saturday in Rabat, thanks to a double from striker [...]
The Victoria Waterfront development project aimed at making the Seychelles' capital more lively is underway and is expected to be completed in five years, said a top government official on Tuesday. In the revised project plan which is part of the Victoria Masterplan 2040, the New Port, ex-children's playground and all the way to the building [...]
A 7.0-magnitude earthquake killed at least five people in the northern Philippines Wednesday, toppling buildings and shaking high-rise towers more than 300 kilometres (185 miles) away in the capital Manila. The shallow and powerful quake struck the mountainous and lightly populated province of Abra on the main island of Luzon at 8:43 am (0043 GMT), [...]
Two Chevening Alumni scholars are currently on a working visit to Seychelles, to learn from the island nations' best practices in the Blue Economy sector and environmental protection. The Chevening Alumni are past foreign students with leadership qualities who attended international scholarships in the United Kingdom funded by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The [...]
Hundreds of protesters rallied on Tuesday against last year's military coup in Sudan and a recent spike in tribal violence which killed more than 100 people, AFP correspondents said. Sudan's main civilian group, the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC), which was ousted in the coup, had called for mass demonstrations with hashtags urging co-existence [...]
Seychelles is seen as a model for other Indian Ocean Island states in the field of debt-for-environment swaps, the Speaker of the Parliament of Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, said after he met President Wavel Ramkalawan on Tuesday. Nasheed is also the former President of the Maldives. Nasheed told reporters that he has requested the president and [...]
Seychelles is seen as a model for other Indian Ocean Island states in the field of debt-for-environment swaps, the Speaker of the Parliament of Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, said after he met President Wavel Ramkalawan on Tuesday. Nasheed is also the former President of the Maldives. Nasheed told reporters that he has requested the president and [...]
Burkina Faso's former president Blaise Compaore, sentenced in absentia to life in jail for the 1987 assassination of revolutionary icon Thomas Sankara, apologised to the ex-leader's family on Tuesday. "I ask the Burkinabe people for forgiveness for all the acts I may have committed during my tenure, and especially the family of my brother and [...]
The Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA) is extending the date proposed for local fishermen to register their fish traps, an exercise aimed at understanding the current artisanal fisheries situation, said a top official. The principal fisheries scientist of SFA, Amir Ebrahim, told SNA that last month, the authority called on fishermen who use fish traps to [...]
Visitors and tourism operators seeking to buy tickets for a visit to Seychelles' Curieuse Marine Park will as of August 1 do so via digital means through a mandatory online payment system introduced by the Seychelles Parks and Gardens Authority (SPGA). The use of the online system is expected to reduce the number of revenue leakages, improve [...]
