The Seychelles Office of the Auditor General ranked first in a World Bank audit of institutional independence. Seychelles, an archipelago in the western Indian Ocean, received a perfect score out of 10 indicators including legal, financial, mandate, coverage, and operational dimensions. Seychelles shared the top ranking with South Africa. The Seychelles Auditor General, Gamini Herath, told [...]
Dozens of small island states most vulnerable to the effects of climate change have called on the world to save "our very future" after a landmark UN report said accelerating global warming and rising sea levels threaten their existence. The call to action comes after the climate report warned that catastrophic global warming is occurring [...]
Guinea confirmed a case of Marburg disease, the World Health Organization said on Monday, the first recorded in West Africa of the lethal virus that's related to Ebola and, like Covid-19, passed from animal hosts to humans. The virus, which is carried by bats and has a fatality rate of up to 88 percent, was [...]
A 13-year-old on holiday in Seychelles who has a gift for languages and learning has been teaching maths lessons at Beau Vallon secondary school. Issey Ryu Itahashi, a Japanese Slovak national, told SNA that he really likes to help others. He is teaching mathematics classes alongside other qualified teachers. "I have taught at state schools in Slovakia, but [...]
The Seychelles' Truth, Reconciliation and National Unity Commission expects to complete a reparations policy by September this year which will determine how the victims of the island nation's 1977 coup d'etat will be compensated. The chairperson of the Commission, Australian Gabrielle McIntyre, made the announcement after presenting the TRNUC's fourth report to President Wavel Ramkalawan [...]
Seychelles will welcome vessels with a maximum of 300 passengers for the 2021-2022 cruise ship season from mid-November, said a top official, the first port calls to the island nation after an 18-month stoppage due to COVID-19 restrictions. Pent-up demand in the industry means the archipelago in the western Indian Ocean has interest from cruise [...]
Three Seychellois divers have started a project to clean up the ocean floor at polluted sites around the main island of Mahe. In their first dive two weeks ago, the three divers -- Mervin Cedras, Marcus Quatre and Dominique Thelermont -- did not like what they saw. "The worst thing was the fact that we [...]
As heart-stopping images of fires and floods dominate news cycles worldwide, the UN's climate science panel will unveil on Monday its much-anticipated projections for temperature and sea-level rises less than three months before a crucial climate summit in Scotland. After two weeks of virtual negotiations, 195 nations approved the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) [...]
The Tokyo 2020 Games were declared closed on Sunday by IOC chief Thomas Bach, who said it had been the "most challenging Olympic journey" after a year's pandemic delay and threats of cancellation. Bach called the Tokyo Games "unprecedented" as he addressed the 68,000-seat Olympic Stadium, which was empty of spectators as Japan battles a [...]
A first book providing the history and the plants in the Fond Ferdinand nature reserve on Seychelles' second-most populated island of Praslin is now available from author Steen G. Hansen. The 110-page book entitled 'Le Ravin de Fond Ferdinand' is another collaboration of Hansen, a Danish biologist living in Seychelles, with Seychellois environmentalist Victorin Laboudallon. [...]
