The polling station on Silhouette island opened just after 9 a.m. on Thursday to register the votes of some of the very first ballots cast in Seychelles' three-day presidential and National Assembly election that opened Thursday. The first voter in line, Modestine Magnan, an 81-year-old inhabitant of Silhouette, said that the voting process went well. [...]
Voters in Seychelles cast the first ballots in the island nation's presidential and National Assembly elections on Thursday, the first of three days of voting. At the top of the ballot three men are vying for president: Wavel Ramkalawan from the Linyon Demokratik Seselwa (LDS), Danny Faure, the incumbent president of United Seychelles (US) and [...]
A Kenyan taskforce Wednesday unveiled recommendations for constitutional reform, including creating a position of prime minister, to ease political violence, even as tensions mount ahead of the 2022 election. In a long-awaited report handed to President Uhuru Kenyatta and his rival-turned-ally Raila Odinga, the taskforce outlined the results of two years of consultations about ways [...]
More students from Seychelles are expected to benefit from scholarships in Hungary after the signing of a first Memorandum of Understanding with the Hungarian government. Ten students will benefit from the scholarships from 2020 to 2023. The signing was done through a virtual ceremony Wednesday by the principal secretary for Tertiary Education and Human Resource [...]
Data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) shows that Seychelles' Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracted 17.2 percent in the second quarter of 2020 compared to the same period a year earlier. The principal statistician at NBS, Kevin Bistoquet, told SNA on Monday that the decline was caused mainly by the COVID-19 pandemic. "The partial [...]
Authorities on Tuesday imposed an indefinite curfew in Nigeria's economic hub Lagos as the police ordered out anti-riot units nationwide to face protests officials claimed had been hijacked by criminals. As the lockdown went into force in Africa's largest city at 4 pm (1500 GMT), hundreds of defiant protesters sang the national anthem as they [...]
Voters in Seychelles begin casting ballots in the island nation's presidential and National Assembly election on Thursday, the first of three days of voting. Three candidates -- Wavel Ramkalawan of Linyon Demokratik Seselwa (LDS), Danny Faure the incumbent president of United Seychelles (US) and Alain St Ange of One Seychelles -- are contesting the presidential [...]
The Seychelles Tourism Board is encouraging visitors to use the island nation as a home office, combining a bit of work with a holiday visit during a time when much of the world is embracing work-from-home policies as part of COVID-19 prevention measures. "STB is looking at how to bring into the country visitors who [...]
The Seychelles Constitutional Court on Tuesday set November 3 to hear the preliminary objection filed by the lawyer of the Eastern European Engineering Limited (EEEL) in the case against Vijay Construction. The lawyer of Vijay Construction, Bernard George, filed the request in August to have the whole case re-heard. The request was put on hold [...]
A United Arab Emirates delegation left on the country's first official visit to Israel on Tuesday, with a string of deals set to be signed after the two countries signed a deal to normalise ties last month. With their economies hard-hit by the coronavirus pandemic, the UAE and Israel are hoping for rapid dividends from [...]
