For the first time since its inception over 25 years ago, the Ocean Youth and Sport Commission Games - in French, La Commission de la Jeunesse et des Sports e l'Ocean Indien (CJSOI) -- will feature an academic component alongside the traditional cultural exchanges and sporting events. Seychelles' minister for Youth, Sports and Family, Marie [...]
The World Health Organization warned Tuesday Omicron was spreading at an unprecedented rate and urged countries to act, as drug maker Pfizer said its coronavirus pill was effective against the variant. Dutch primary schools will close early as Europe battles a fresh wave of infections and hospital admissions, while British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced [...]
A new private agency has opened in Seychelles that specialises in providing professional home care not only for the elderly but other persons who require respite care. The Care Home Empowerment Agency (CHEA) was founded by cousins Manette Nourrice and Rita Nibourette Sorkpah, who has a similar agency in Germany where she resides. The founders [...]
Tunisia's President Kais Saied on Monday extended his months-long suspension of parliament until new elections in December 2022, while calling for a July referendum on constitutional reforms. In a speech on national television, Saied announced a three-month "popular consultation" with the Tunisian people after which "draft constitutional and other reforms will be put forward to [...]
Seychelles will receive about $10 million from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in the coming 18 months to improve its Blue Economy sector, the UNDP resident representative to the island nation said on Tuesday. Amanda Serumaga paid a visit to President Wavel Ramkalawan at State House in Victoria, the culmination of a two-week mission [...]
Leaders of the West African bloc ECOWAS have called on Guinea's military junta to provide a timetable for elections that would lead to a return to civilian rule. The bloc's leaders issued a statement on Monday saying it remained "very concerned that three months after the coup d'etat, a timetable for the return of constitutional [...]
The United Nations Human Rights Council is expected to host a special session on the civil war in Ethiopia this week, following an urgent request from the European Union. In a letter sent to the council president, the EU called for the UN's top rights body to swiftly address the deteriorating situation in Ethiopia, where [...]
As an island state and a pioneer of the Blue Economy, Seychelles can share its model with other small islands in the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), former President James Michel told members of the group. Michel, the executive chairman of the James Michel Foundation, made the statement at the Ocean Sustainability High [...]
US emergency workers searched Sunday for survivors of ferocious tornadoes that killed dozens of people across several states and left towns in ruins, but the governor of hard-hit Kentucky warned that cadaver dogs were still finding bodies. President Joe Biden called the rare late-season burst of twisters in the US heartland "one of the largest" [...]
The Seychelles Prison Services is planning to introduce electronic ankle bracelets in 2023 to better monitor inmates while also giving those on special prison programmes a degree of freedom. Planning is set to begin in early 2022 with a pilot project beginning in 2023. "These bracelets will allow us to keep track of inmates who [...]
