The US Coast Guard is investigating a possible anchor strike as the cause of a broken pipeline that has spewed tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil into the sea off California, media reported Tuesday. Emergency responders say up to 131,000 gallons of thick, sticky fuel have fouled waters that are home to seals, [...]
Two administrators are examining Air Seychelles' finances and operations, and will recommend either a turnaround plan or that the national airline should be shut down, a top official said Tuesday. "The administrators will able to do one of three things after they have gone through the company's books, which is either to come up with [...]
Climate action and education are areas of cooperation that two newly accredited ambassadors to Seychelles will focus on during their tenure. Presenting their credentials to Seychelles' president, Wavel Ramkalawan, on Tuesday at State House were the ambassador of Ireland to Seychelles, Mary O'Neill, and her counterpart from Belgium, Peter Maddens. Calling on the president first, [...]
Seychelles will receive technical support from the Tax Inspectors Without Borders initiative to build its tax audit capacity, in a move to target cross-border tax avoidance, said the finance ministry. Under the one-year programme launched virtually on Monday, the government of India, which was chosen as the partner administration, will provide a tax expert to [...]
Africa's film industry is thriving and could create many millions of extra jobs if its potential was fully exploited, the United Nations said Tuesday. In a report, the UN cultural organisation UNESCO said that an estimated five million people currently work in Africa's film industry, which contributes $5 billion to the continent's GDP. Nigeria's film [...]
Facebook battled dueling crises Monday as potentially billions of users were impacted when its dominant social network went offline for seven hours, and the company fought against a whistleblower's damning revelations. Many long-held fears and criticisms about the platform seem to have been backed up by Facebook's own research, which ex-worker Frances Haugen has turned [...]
Climate change, green and renewable energy, foreign direct investment and the COVID-19 pandemic were among the topics the Seychelles' honorary consuls based in Europe were to discuss in a virtual conference Monday. President Wavel Ramkalawan launched the group's first meeting after a three-year break. Although Seychelles is a small island nation in the western Indian [...]
The robust return of tourism activity to the island nation is fuelling a rise in the value of the Seychelles rupee against the dollar, making it among the top 10 performing currencies in Africa this year, according to a financial news outlet. "The Seychelles rupee strengthened 2.9 percent this week to 13.31 against the dollar, [...]
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is due to be sworn in for a new five-year term Monday, but the milestone risks being undermined by growing alarm over the war in the north. Abiy's Prosperity Party scored a landslide win in June elections that federal officials touted as the high-water mark of democratic reforms he initiated [...]
Lieutenant Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, the leader of the latest coup in Guinea who was sworn in Friday, is a highly educated, combat-hardened soldier who once served in France's Foreign Legion. Doumbouya says he has no designs on the presidency long-term and that neither he nor his fellow coup plotters will stand for election at the [...]
