Opening arguments begin on Monday in the trial of the white police officer accused of killing George Floyd, a Black man whose death was captured on video and touched off protests against racial injustice across the United States and around the world. Derek Chauvin, a 19-year veteran of the Minneapolis Police Department, faces murder and [...]
More anti-poaching patrols are taking place on Aride island and its surrounding waters through an agreement between the Island Conservation Society (ICS) and the Seychelles Coast Guard. Aride island, a nature reserve, is home to the wedge-tailed shearwater, known in Creole as fouke-de-zil, and the tropical shearwater, known as riga. According to Aride’s website, the tropical [...]
Dozens of people were killed in coordinated jihadist attacks in northern Mozambique's Palma town, the government said on Sunday, four days after the raid was launched and forced the evacuation of thousands of survivors to safety in the provincial capital Pemba. Seven people were killed in an ambush during an operation to evacuate them from [...]
Businesses in Seychelles which qualify to lease and develop fish processing facilities at the newly demarcated Fish Processing Zone at Ile Du Port will be revealed by June this year. The Ministry of Fisheries and the Blue Economy said that procedures for allocation started in February when the Seychelles Investment Board (SIB) and the Seychelles [...]
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected daily operations for businesses in Seychelles and led to a decrease in profits, according to the findings of a survey conducted by the Seychelles Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI). The survey asked 93 companies of all sizes from a wide range of sectors including tourism, transportation, arts, manufacturing, retail, [...]
Madagascar's longtime former leader Didier Ratsiraka, a naval officer and instigator of a socialist revolution on the Indian Ocean island, died Sunday morning aged 84, president Andry Rajoelina announced. "The Malagasy have lost an illustrious patriot," Rajoelina posted on Twitter. The cause of death was not immediately disclosed. Nicknamed "Deba", Malagasy for 'bad guy' and [...]
An Indonesian cathedral was rocked by a suspected suicide bombing on Sunday with body parts littering the chaotic scene as Christians inside celebrated the start of Holy Week, police said. The powerful blast at the church in Makassar city on Sulawesi island happened around 10:30 am local time (0330 GMT) and left at least one [...]
The National Arts Council (NAC) of Seychelles launched on Monday its first ever virtual exhibition, the Lockdown Biennale, showcasing visual artworks of 40 local and international artists. Originally planned to have been the next edition of the Byenal Sesel – Creole for Seychelles Biennale – in April 2020, the exhibition is going online due to the COVID-19 [...]
Seychelles is mourning the passing of Jean Dingwall, an entrepreneur who in the 1970s and 1980s was detained as a political prisoner but in more recent years was a prominent businessman whose company helped outfit and upgrade the island nation's homes. He was 72. Dingwall, the founder and owner of Homemakers, died a month ago [...]
Seychellois Elvis Chetty, the president of the Seychelles Football Federation, has been elected to the Confederation of African Football (CAF) executive committee as an ordinary member. Chetty, a barrister at law, won the election with 40 out of 50 votes during the annual general meeting of the Confederation of African Football in Rabat, Morocco on [...]
