The number of legal abortions recorded in Seychelles has remained fairly constant between 400 to 500 every year from 2008 until 2023, according to records from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Meanwhile, for the same period the average number of live births annually for the same period has remained constant at around 1500. In 2023, 58 [...]
Determining how best to work with the local media to use available Seychelles' fisheries information was the aim of a half-day workshop organised by the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) in collaboration with the Danny Faure Foundation (DFF) on Tuesday. Held at the National Library in Victoria, the workshop was attended by representatives from the media houses. Yannick Memee, the Seychelles FiTi [...]
Another 200 Kenyan police officers arrived in Haiti Tuesday under a UN-backed mission to try to quell rampant gang violence in the troubled Caribbean nation, where they were welcomed by senior Haitian and Kenyan police officials. Haitian sources say the new batch brings the total to 400 Kenyan boots on the ground in violence-ravaged Port-au-Prince, [...]
Authorities in Hamas-run Gaza said dozens of Palestinians were killed Tuesday in three separate strikes, as Israel pounded the territory despite renewed US criticism of the high civilian toll. Gaza civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal said the three air strikes killed at least 44 people and wounded dozens within an hour across the war-torn Palestinian [...]
As Seychelles continues to suffer the impacts of climate change, most of the fisheries sector is feeling the effects, except artisanal fishing which continues to see a rise in the amount of fish caught. The Minister for Fisheries and Blue Economy, Jean-Francois Ferrari, made the statement about this in the National Assembly, in response [...]
The governments of the United Arab Emirates and Seychelles have issued a joint press statement on the alarming food security situation and the risk of famine in Sudan. The crisis is directly caused by the 14 months of conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and the systematic obstruction of humanitarian [...]
A service in memory of James Cadbury, a great friend of Seychelles conservation, was held at the Church of St Andrew and Mary, Grantchester, Cambridge, United Kingdom, on July 11, 2024. James Cadbury passed away peacefully in Cambridge in the UK on Friday, May 17. His daughter, Lucy, had cycled over to be with him on that glorious sunny [...]
Kenyan police said they arrested on Monday a suspected serial killer who confessed to murdering 42 women, including his wife, and discarding their dismembered bodies in a Nairobi rubbish dump. Since Friday, nine butchered bodies trussed up in plastic bags have been hauled from the site of an abandoned quarry in the Mukuru slum, a [...]
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has scored a crushing election victory that will extend his iron-fisted rule by another five years, according to partial results issued Monday. De facto leader since the end of the 1994 genocide and president since 2000, Kagame scored 99.15 percent of the vote, the National Election Commission announced after 79 percent [...]
A Seychelles Sustainable Forest Management Policy, to enhance the economic contribution of forests through sustainable practices while bolstering biodiversity conservation and promoting eco-tourism, was approved by the Cabinet of Ministers recently. The chief executive of the in Seychelles Parks and Gardens Authority (SPGA), Allen Cedras, told SNA on Monday, "The policy does not really include [...]
