A first-ever video showing a giant tortoise stalking, killing and eating a baby chick on Seychelles' Fregate island has gone viral. The video captured so much attention in part because giant tortoises were not previously known to hunt living prey. The video and an article detailing the event was released in the Science Direct journal earlier [...]
Japan will halt the use of 1.63 million doses of Moderna's Covid vaccine after reports of contamination in several vials, drugmaker Takeda and the health ministry said Thursday. Takeda, which is in charge of sales and distribution of the Moderna shot in Japan, said it had "received reports from several vaccination centres that foreign substances [...]
COVID -19 has forced a general slowdown of life, where industries and businesses have either halted or stopped altogether. But one thing that has boomed recently in Seychelles – 115 islands in the western Indian Ocean - is the publication of books. Since the beginning of 2021, six new books have been published, with topics [...]
Three police officers and a private security guard were killed by a lone gunman in a shooting spree near the French embassy in Tanzania's economic hub of Dar es Salaam on Wednesday, police said. Head of police operations Liberatus Sabas told reporters that the motive of the gunman, who was shot dead at the scene [...]
More than 100 Bangladeshi nationals have joined the workforce in Seychelles in a bid to boost the agricultural sector, said a top employment official on Wednesday. Out of the 121 Bangladeshi nationals who left their country last Friday on a chartered flight, only 25 were newly recruited workers. The director general for labour migration at [...]
A young Guinean woman who tested positive for the Ebola virus in Ivory Coast after arriving there two weeks ago has recovered from the disease, the Ivorian health ministry said Tuesday. "We performed on the patient two biological tests which were negative in an interval of 48 hours. She is therefore declared cured," Serge Eholie, [...]
The Tokyo Paralympics opened with howling guitars and neon-streaked performers on Tuesday, with athletes ready to defy stereotypes and shatter records despite a year-long pandemic delay. Japan's Emperor Naruhito declared the Games open surrounded by banks of vacant seats at the 68,000-capacity Olympic Stadium, with virus rules banning spectators from almost all events. International Paralympic [...]
Air Seychelles, the national carrier of the island nation in the western Indian Ocean, has a Seychellois at the helm for the first time in 10 years. Sandy Benoiton, a certified pilot, took up the role of acting chief executive of the airline on July 1, succeeding Remco Althuis, who had led Air Seychelles since [...]
A new steering committee will begin work next week to turn the Seychelles into a digital economy, making way for a more open and transparent government. The Minister for Finance, Naadir Hassan made the announcement during a press conference, revealing the government's plans to bring about the proposed measures. The plan to move to a [...]
Staff who will represent Seychelles at the Expo 2020 in Dubai attended a one-day training to learn more about the different components of the island nation's pavilion. Under the theme 'Preserve Nature', Seychelles will feature in the sustainability pavilion of the world event scheduled for October 1 to March 31, 2022. The Dubai Expo 2020 [...]
