Fifty years after last hosting the Africa Cup of Nations, Cameroon kick off the continental showpiece on Sunday targeting a sixth title while hoping the spectre of the coronavirus does not overshadow the tournament. Cameroon, who play 2013 runners-up Burkina Faso in their opening Group A match at the vast new 60,000-seat Olembe Stadium in [...]
A group of local researchers has partnered with Germany-based Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour to track sooty terns' movements by satellite. Martin Wikelski, the managing director of the Department of Migration at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour, and Uschi Mueller were in Seychelles recently to help with the study. Earlier this year [...]
Sidney Poitier, Hollywood's first major Black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar, has died at 94, prompting an outpouring of grief from the entertainment industry and beyond. Stars including Denzel Washington along with current and past US presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama led emotional tributes as news [...]
Seychelles is among five nations bidding to host the 2023 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, an official said. The bidding process opened in October and will conclude with the selection of the host in March 2022. Seychelles is bidding along with Colombia, Bahrain, Thailand and UAE. The chairman of the Seychelles Football Federation, Elvis Chetty, [...]
Seychellois referee Bernard Camille will officiate his fifth Africa Cup of Nations football tournament in January, which he says will be his last international match as an official. Camille, 46, has been a top referee in Seychelles for years and became an international referee in 2012. He normally would not have been selected since he is [...]
The Seychelles Supreme Court on Friday rejected for a second time a plea for a review of bail conditions for Sarah Zarqhani Rene who has been charged with money laundering in the case of the missing $50 million from a government account, the most serious corruption case in Seychelles' recent history. Zarqhani Rene, the widow of former President France [...]
France is considering cancelling the Dakar rally after an explosion in Saudi Arabia that badly injured a French driver and prosecutors are investigating as a suspected terror attack, the foreign minister said Friday. French prosecutors said Tuesday that they had opened a terror probe over a December 30 blast targeting a car in Jeddah, which [...]
More than six million people in drought-hit areas of eastern and southern Ethiopia will need "life-saving" assistance this year, the UN's emergency response agency said in a new report. The drought is adding to the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia, where the war between government forces and the rebel Tigray People's Liberation Army (TPLF) in the [...]
Applications made under the return of undeveloped land scheme, set up on October 1, 2020, by the Seychelles government, will be reviewed this month, said the Ministry of Land and Housing in a press statement. The scheme applies to land which was either compulsorily acquired by the state under the Lands Acquisition Act of 1977 or [...]
Sri Lanka and India launched a joint venture Thursday to revive a strategic British colonial-era oil storage facility and strengthen energy security in the region, a senior minister said. The deal is seen as countering China's rising influence in the region and comes two days ahead of a visit to the Indian Ocean island nation [...]