European nations are pushing ahead with reopening primary schools despite a rise in coronavirus cases, with smaller classes, shorter lessons and mask-wearing among the steps adopted to curb infections. But many parents and teachers worry the measures are not enough, or have been adopted too close to the start of classes to be put in [...]
The One Seychelles political party has confirmed candidates for six more constituencies ahead of upcoming parliamentary elections to be held in the island nation in October. Party leader Alain St Ange said that One Seychelles will stand alone in the presidential and legislative elections, ruling out a partnership with another party. St Ange spoke Thursday as candidates for six [...]
Exactly 250 years after the first settlers arrived in the island nation, Seychelles on Thursday commemorated the milestone by returning to the shores where the travelers first made landfall. The group of 28 people - Europeans and slaves from India and Africa - established the first settlement on Seychelles’ inner island of Ste. Anne in [...]
Caroline Abel, the governor of the Central Bank of Seychelles (CBS), is one of the winners of the African Banker Awards 2020. Abel was given the award on Wednesday during the annual meeting, held online, of the African Development Bank. The awards are organised by African Banker magazine. Abel said that she is [...]
For decades, researchers have scratched their heads over how to combat deadly mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue fever. But could the solution come from producing mosquitoes? The French company InnovaFeed, specialised in the production of insects to feed livestock, is partnering with the Australian research World Mosquito Program (WMP) to develop what it says is [...]
Eighteen melon-headed whales washed up on the shores of Mauritius on Wednesday, the country's fisheries minister said, dismissing any link to a devastating oil spill earlier this month. The whales, some of which were still alive when they were found and later died, were stranded on the south-eastern beaches of Grand Sable, and some of [...]
On August 27, 250 years ago, the first settlers arrived in Seychelles – today recognized as a group of 115 islands in the western Indian Ocean. The 28 people were French and their slaves from Africa and India. The first settlers came to the islands onboard the vessel Telemaque, and they established their first settlement [...]
New research has revealed that the same amount of female and male seeds of the coco de mer trees are produced naturally and that both female and male trees exist in equal proportions in early life stages, meaning that selective planting is not needed. The findings on the world’s largest nut will help put to [...]
A poacher in Congo-Brazzaville has been sentenced to 30 years of forced labour for killing elephants, an NGO said Tuesday. Gerard Mombaza Mombembo, 35, from neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, has been nicknamed "the butcher of Nouabale Ndoki", after the national park where he primarily operated. He was found guilty of killing protected animals and [...]
Spain said Tuesday it will call in the army to try to help curb the spread of the coronavirus as parts of Europe and Asia battle new surges, while data from the UN health agency suggested the pace of transmission was easing in many parts of the world. Governments have been ramping up efforts to [...]
