Seychelles is disappointed with the outcome of the UN Climate Change Conference COP26, which a top government official said on Tuesday is unlikely to lead to the world containing global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius. The Minister for Agriculture, Climate Change and Environment, Flavien Joubert, who was part of a team of 12 Seychellois experts [...]
The two leaders in the National Assembly responded on Tuesday to the budget address made by the Minister for Finance last Friday. Naadir Hassan, Minister for Finance, Economic Planning and Trade, presented a proposed 2022 budget of just over SCR10 billion ($773million) with the health and education ministries receiving 32 percent of the allocation for [...]
Two explosions hit Uganda's capital Kampala on Tuesday, injuring about two dozen people in what police termed an attack on the city, the latest in a string of blasts targeting the country. The explosions went off in the central business district of Kampala near the central police station and the entrance to parliament, police said. [...]
Attention all visitors: You're again welcome in Seychelles. The island nation is open to visitors from all countries again after travel restrictions were removed for India, Brazil, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. The five were removed from the restricted list in a revised travel advisory released Friday by the Ministry of Health. The Ministry of Health said that for [...]
US President Joe Biden and China's Xi Jinping opened a virtual summit Monday with an appeal for better communication between the superpowers and what Biden called "guardrails" to avoid conflict. Speaking from the White House to Xi on a television screen, Biden emphasized the need for settling a relationship rocked by high-stakes disputes, including on [...]
Fifteen streets in the Seychelles' capital of Victoria whose names are linked to the 1977 coup d'état will see their names changed, said a top official. "We want people to be unified in this new Seychelles and remove the political divisions that exist," the Mayor of Victoria, David Andre, told SNA on Friday. In December [...]
British counter-terrorism police were questioning three men on Monday after a "heroic" taxi driver reportedly foiled a plot to bomb a packed Remembrance Day service in Liverpool. An explosion engulfed a cab outside Liverpool Women's Hospital on Sunday, seconds before Britain fell silent at 1100 GMT to honour its war dead. A passenger was killed [...]
A Seychellois man who was reported missing in October has been found on board a foreign dhow during a joint military operation, and President Wavel Ramkalawan shared the news with family members on Monday. A missing persons notice for Andy Bistoquet, a resident of the eastern district of Anse Aux Pins, was issued on November [...]
Seychelles is being used as the base for an Earth observation programme using stratospheric super pressure balloons led by the French national scientific research centre, CNES. A group of 60 researchers from CNES are in Seychelles undertaking the study called 'Strateole 2' in collaboration with the Seychelles Meteorological Authority. The study comes under the umbrella [...]
Wanted Libyan war crimes suspect Seif al-Islam Kadhafi, son of slain dictator Moamer Kadhafi and once seen as his heir apparent, registered to run Sunday for next month's presidential election. In a surprise announcement, Seif al-Islam, whose whereabouts have been kept secret for several months, became the first heavyweight candidate to sign up for the [...]
