About three dozen residents took to Seychelles' Anse à La Mouche road in the south-west of the main island of Mahe on Saturday to peacefully protest the development of a 120-room hotel in the area. The group expressed concerns that the development would affect the protection of the wetland, beach access, road diversion and livelihood [...]
Britain's Supreme Court ruled on Friday that more than 40,000 people in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria can make pollution claims against Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell in English courts. The ruling overturned a 2017 decision against the Ogale and Bille communities, who brought legal claims for clean-up and compensation following decades of repeated spills [...]
Seychelles is ranked 67th out of 189 countries in the 30th edition of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 2020 Human Development Index (HDI), the second-highest score in Africa coming one rank after Mauritius. The island nation has made huge progress in the 30 years since the first Human Development Report and the introduction of [...]
Financial and banking institutions in Seychelles are re-organising their operations to ensure continuity in their services to the public amid the COVID-19 public health measures, said a top official. The governor of the Central Bank, Caroline Abel, told a press conference on Friday that since last year financial institutions such as banks have been facing [...]
Ethiopian forces shelled heavily populated areas in the first weeks of the conflict in the Tigray region, killing at least 83 civilians and displacing thousands, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. Artillery attacks by forces backing Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize winner, "struck homes, hospitals, schools and markets", according to the report, [...]
Restrictions on movements in Seychelles have been extended to the end of February in a continued effort to stop the transmission of COVID-19 from spreading further in the island nation, authorities announced Thursday. Notably, schools are now slated to re-open in late February or early March and this will be done in phases. The Public [...]
Deaths from Covid-19 in Africa surged by 40 percent over the last month, the World Health Organisation said Thursday, as the continent's toll approaches 100,000. "Over 22,300 deaths were reported in Africa in the last 28 days, compared with nearly 16,000 deaths in the previous 28 days," said the WHO Africa office based in the [...]
A national institute for culture and heritage will soon be created to promote and protect the Seychellois Creole culture, the Mayor of Victoria said Thursday. Mayor David Andre told a news conference that the institute will help create consistency in the island nation's efforts to protect its heritage. "In the past, the Department of Culture [...]
Anti-coup protesters on Thursday took to the streets of Myanmar for a sixth consecutive day, after US President Joe Biden announced sanctions against the Southeast Asian nation's generals and demanded they relinquish power. There has been an outpouring of anger and defiance since the military ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi last week and [...]
Seychelles has received some welcome publicity after a popular German TV series - 'Das Traumschiff' – featured the island nation in its one of its latest episodes. Called 'Dream Ship' in English, the series is about a cruise ship – the MS Amadea - that travels to explore renowned tourist destinations across the globe. Now [...]
