Famine in the war-torn Ethiopian region of Tigray is on track to spread to other parts of the country, a UN official warned Tuesday. "The situation is set to get worse in the coming months, not only in Tigray, but in Afar and Amhara as well," UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Mark Lowcock told the [...]
An Aquaculture Regulatory Committee, which will be the main body to review and recommend aquaculture license applications in Seychelles, is expected to be set up in preparation for the launch of this new industry later this year. The committee will also decide actions to be taken against non-adherence of the regulations and standards of the [...]
Seychelles could receive a needed injection of funds from the World Bank earlier than originally planned to help the island nation recover and advance after the damage done to the economy due to COVID-19. As part of those negotiations, Taufila Nyamadzabo, an executive director for Africa at the World Bank, met with Seychelles' President Wavel [...]
Work to refurbish the exterior of the Palais de Justice building is expected to start soon under an agreement signed between Seychelles and China on Tuesday. Palais de Justice was opened in June 2013 through a $6 million project funded by China and built in partnership with the government of Seychelles. The building houses the [...]
Beijing on Tuesday accused NATO of exaggerating the threat from China and "creating confrontation", after a vow from the Western allies to work together to counter the "systemic challenges" posed by its policies. NATO leaders made the commitment on Monday, as US President Joe Biden renewed Washington's transatlantic ties at his first summit with the [...]
Kenya said Monday it will honour Somalia's invitation to restore diplomatic ties and reopen its embassy in Mogadishu, marking a thaw in the often-tense relations between the Horn of Africa neighbours. Ties between the countries were severed on December 15 after Kenya hosted the leadership of Somaliland, a breakaway state not recognised by the central [...]
Intelvision Seychelles will appeal the ruling in the copyright claim case that MultiChoice Africa filed against it, the company said on Monday. MultiChoice Africa, a company registered in the Netherlands, filed the case last year after Intelvision Seychelles broadcast the 2019 edition of the final tournament of the Total Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) organised [...]
Almost a year after the introduction of its 5G network, Cable and Wireless Seychelles, a local telecommunication company, is offering a data package covering areas on Mahe, the main island. Cable and Wireless Seychelles launched its 5G network in July last year in partnership with Huawei, a Chinese multinational telecommunications company. The public relations executive, [...]
Israel awoke Monday with Jewish nationalist Naftali Bennett at the head of a precarious coalition government that faces stark challenges, after 12 years under right-wing Benjamin Netanyahu. The watershed moment in Israeli politics saw an ideologically disparate eight-party bloc, ranging from right to left to Arab Islamic conservatives, band together to unseat the bombastic veteran [...]
Seychelles-flagged purse seiners now have a yellowfin tuna catch allocation of 35,800 tonnes, as the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission's (IOTC) relooks at the allocation mechanism for the species through adopting a new resolution to be effective next year. The allocation of yellowfin for Seychelles' purse seiner fleet was 33,211 metric tonnes for the year which [...]
