Kite surfers took flight across the waters of Seychelles' Praslin island recently as the local Yachting Association has started organising weekly competitions in the island nation. Kitesurfing is a wind-powered sport popular on beaches around the world but one that has not yet taken off in big numbers in Seychelles. Kite surfers use a kite and a [...]
The United States on Thursday offered a $5 million reward for the arrest of Guinea-Bissau's former coup leader Antonio Indjai who is wanted for alleged drug trafficking on behalf of Colombia's FARC rebels. Indjai, then army chief of staff, staged a coup in 2012 between rounds of presidential elections in the long unstable West African [...]
A new Physical Planning Act in Seychelles will provide a revised framework for regulating land use planning to bring about sustainable development in the island nation. The chief executive of the Planning Authority told SNA that advances in design in construction mean that Seychelles must update its regulations. "When it was written in 1972, advancement [...]
The government of Seychelles is looking for ways to encourage students who study at the Seychelles Institute of Agriculture and Horticulture (SIAH) to remain in the agriculture sector once they complete their studies. A delegation made up of the ministries of employment, agriculture, and education visited the school on Tuesday to talk to the students [...]
People in Seychelles who seek moral damages in court and can prove that they have been wronged may be awarded up to SCR1 million rupees ($73,000), said an official of the Attorney General's office on Thursday. The precedent was set when the former minister of tourism, Alain St. Ange, was awarded SCR 1 million for [...]
Sydney extended its two-month-old lockdown for another month and introduced a partial curfew Friday, as Australia's largest city struggled to contain a fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak. New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian announced the "difficult" decision, telling the city's population of five million it was time to "bunker down". "Unfortunately the case numbers continue to grow," [...]
Farmers on the Seychelles' three main islands are asking the National Biosecurity Agency to lift a ban imposed on the movement of tomatoes between Mahe, Praslin and La Digue as sales are being severely affected. The ban was imposed late last month to curb the spread of the tomato leaf miner (Tuta Absoluta) which was [...]
Senior Taliban members have met with former president Hamid Karzai and senior official Abdullah Abdullah as they seek to form a government in Afghanistan, pledging it will be "positively different" from their brutal rule two decades ago. But thousands of Afghans and foreigners are still attempting to flee the country, fearful about the hardliners' past [...]
Nearly 60,000 tourists have arrived in Seychelles since it re-opened its borders to the world on March 25 after shutting off tourism due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Tourism officials are forecasting up to 189,000 visitors by the end of the year. With its pristine environment and abundance of sun, Seychelles lures visitors to secluded beaches on [...]
DR Congo's army says it has seized the "last strongholds" of a rebel force after several days of fighting in the troubled eastern province of South Kivu. The clashes erupted in the province's highlands on August 12, when the military said it had responded to attacks by a coalition of the Makanika, Twigwaneho and Ngumino [...]
