Global food security has always been a subject of great concern for Seychelles and the rest of Africa, the island nation's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in response to an online briefing by Ukraine's foreign minister on food security for African press. Russia launched a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine on February 24, 2022, a war [...]
A British nationality law passed on April 28 will allow direct descendants of people born in the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), which includes the Chagossians, to apply for citizenship but there is no indication when that will take place, said the chairperson of the Chagossian Committee of Seychelles (CCS) on Thursday. "It is expected [...]
Activists in Sudan have called for mass rallies Thursday to demand the reversal of an October military coup that prompted foreign governments to slash aid, deepening a chronic economic crisis. The protests come on the anniversary of a previous coup in 1989, which toppled the country's last elected civilian government and ushered in three decades [...]
A new cryptic species of the sucker-tailed gecko, endemic to Seychelles, known in Creole as lezar lake kole, has been discovered and the data on the species is improving the basic understanding of Seychelles' biodiversity, according to a paper published in the Zootaxa scientific journal. The paper, published on June 9, describes in detail this new species [...]
Russia on Thursday began shipping grain from Ukraine's occupied territory, with a vessel carrying 7,000 tonnes of cereal sailing from Ukraine's occupied port of Berdyansk. Kyiv has for weeks accused Russia and its allies of stealing its grain from southern Ukraine, contributing to a global food shortage caused by grain exports blocked in Ukrainian ports. [...]
Seychelles celebrated its 46 years of Independence on June 29. Since 2015, the day Seychelles gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1976 has been celebrated as the National Day. The western Indian Ocean archipelago has made significant strides over the years in areas such as environmental protection, good governance and economic development and is [...]
The scant remains of DR Congo's fiery independence hero Patrice Lumumba were to be interred on Thursday after a pilgrimage that revived traumatic memories but also stirred national unity. A single tooth is all that remains of the young nationalist who was murdered in January 1961 at the age of 35, just months after becoming [...]
Seychelles celebrates its National Day today, on 29 June, in remembrance of its Independence Day in 1977, when it gained freedom from British colonial rule. The highlight of the celebrations, traditionally, is a military parade but this year due to unfavourable rainy weather conditions, the event has been postponed to Sunday July 3. Meanwhile, President Wavel [...]
Mauritius has reopened nightclubs and bars, lifted restrictions on gatherings, and scrapped a public mask mandate as it eased Covid-19 measures in the Indian Ocean island paradise popular with holidaymakers. Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth said Mauritius had achieved a very high rate of vaccination and could "enter a new phase" of the pandemic more than [...]
The Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS) has maintained a relaxed monetary policy at an interest of 2 percent for the third quarter of 2022, said the governor on Tuesday. The policy has not changed since the start of the year and it is mainly due to the rebound of the tourism industry that was badly affected by [...]
