United Nations Security Council members called on Armenia and Azerbaijan to respect a new ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh during a meeting on the disputed region Monday. The council held closed-door discussions on the fighting, which has left hundreds dead since clashes erupted on September 27, at the UN headquarters in New York. During the meeting -- [...]
South Africa's Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said he has tested positive for Covid-19 just two days after the country's diagnosed cases topped 700,000.The 64-year-old minister is the fifth member of the government to contract the virus after his colleagues in the ministries of defence, labour, trade and mineral resources."I wish to inform the public that [...]
The Seychelles Tourism Board (STB) has launched a new campaign targeting to boost support for the importance of the tourism industry and its contribution to Seychelles' economy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tourism Yes! is a communications and media campaign which started this weekend with adverts in daily newspapers. Educational spots on broadcast and social media [...]
Ivy Edmond dreams of a day when women will stand beside men in the top leadership positions in Seychelles. The 73-year-old former school teacher is seeking a second mandate as a Member of the National Assembly (MNA) in the upcoming legislative elections in October for the ruling United Seychelles party. No stranger to the National [...]
Tens of thousands of people rallied in Paris and cities across France in solidarity with a teacher beheaded for showing pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, as President Emmanuel Macron promised swift action against online extremism. Demonstrators on the Place de la Republique held aloft posters declaring: "No to totalitarianism of thought", and "I am [...]
Guineans go to the polls on Sunday to choose a president, with the 82-year-old incumbent bidding for a third term despite mass protests against the move and concerns about democratic backsliding. The election caps a tense political campaign marked by insults traded between President Alpha Conde and his leading rival Cellou Dalein Diallo. It also [...]
Coral reefs in the lagoon of the Seychelles' remote Aldabra atoll recovered faster after the 2015-2016 bleaching event due to tolerance to heat stress, new research found. The research indicates that high daily temperature fluctuations inside Aldabra's lagoon probably enhance the coral's tolerance to heat stress in these sheltered waters. Anna Koester, one of the [...]
Conservationists on Saturday were working to save a large pod of whales stranded in shallow water off New Zealand's Coromandel Peninsula. "Around 40 whales were sighted and sadly 25 have stranded," a spokesman for the conservation group Project Jonah said. Project Jonah general manager Darren Grover told reporters they were trying to keep the whales [...]
The plight of the Chagos people and their fight to return to their island archipelago has been the focus of several articles by the Seychelles News Agency in recent years. At the centre of this fight is Pierre Prosper, who has been on a quest for justice for himself and his fellow islanders who were [...]
Twenty-five educational institutions will be used as voting stations in the presidential and legislative elections in Seychelles October 22-24, a top official said on Friday. The principal secretary of Education, Odile Decommarmond, told a press conference that out of the 25, two will be used as special stations for voting on Thursday 24 -- English [...]
