Nine people were killed in the helicopter crash that claimed the life of NBA star Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter, Los Angeles officials confirmed on Sunday. Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said eight passengers and the pilot of the aircraft died in the accident. "There were no survivors... There were nine people on [...]
President Danny Faure officially launched his election campaign on Saturday at the International Conference Centre in Victoria. During the two-hour ceremony, Faure's campaign slogan 'The Future is Faure – 2020 & beyond' was also unveiled. Faure is the candidate for the United Seychelles (US) party. Faure, who was endorsed at the party's 33rd Congress last August, told [...]
Le président sortant des Seychelles Danny Faure a officiellement présenté son slogan de campagne. La cérémonie a eu lieu samedi après-midi au Centre international de conférences de Victoria. "The Future is Faure - 2020 & beyond" Le candidat du parti « United Seychelles », Danny Faure, a déclaré aux plus de 600 partisans, que « l'avenir des Seychelles [...]
The Chinese New Year has brought good news for the Chinese community of Seychelles: the completion of the long-awaited Pagoda. By the end of this month, the contractor will officially hand over the completed Chinese cultural centre to the Chinese Association of Seychelles. Robert Chong Seng of the association said the facility, which will [...]
Elderly Holocaust survivors will gather in Auschwitz on Monday, some for the last time, to mark 75 years since Soviet troops liberated the death camp where Nazi Germany killed more than 1.1 million people, most of them Jews. Bitter political feuds loom over the memorial ceremony at the site of the former camp in Oswiecim, [...]
Seychelles has signed a contract with Renaissance, a global leader in pre-K to 12 education technology, for a three-year programme to improve student attainment in English reading in all primary schools, said the Ministry of Education. In a press communique on Thursday, the Ministry said the contract was signed during a presentation organised by Renaissance in [...]
A former South African soldier who took part in the failed takeover mercenary attack on Seychelles 40 years ago said the attempt was a mistake and is asking the Seychellois people for forgiveness. Louis Dekker, 65, was a former member of the South African Special Forces recruited by Michael Hoare -- a mercenary leader -- [...]
A SARS-like virus that has claimed 41 lives since emerging in a market in the Chinese city of Wuhan has spread around the world. Here are the places that have confirmed cases of 2019 Novel Coronavirus: - China - As of Saturday, almost 1,300 people have been infected across China, the bulk of them in [...]
Travellers entering Seychelles from China are being screened upon arrival at the international airport after the local health authority activated its disease surveillance and response system to detect cases of the coronavirus. The Seychelles' public health commissioner, Jude Gedeon, told a press conference on Friday that public health officers are closely monitoring Chinese visitors currently [...]
"Ravenous swarms" of desert locusts in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, already unprecedented in their size and destructive potential, threaten to ravage the entire East Africa subregion, the UN warned Monday. Recent weather in the region has created conditions that favour rapid reproduction of the crop-devouring insects. Left unchecked, their numbers could grow 500 times by [...]
