Around 100,000 people were urged to flee five Melbourne suburbs on Monday evening as Australia's spiralling bushfire crisis killed a volunteer firefighter battling a separate blaze in the countryside. Authorities in the country's second-biggest city downgraded an earlier bushfire emergency warning but said residents should steer clear of the blaze, which has burned through 40 [...]
Mauritius and Seychelles will look at ways both island nations can protect their marine resources and speak in one voice on climate change issues, a Mauritian minister said on Monday. The Minister of Housing, Land Use Planning of Mauritius, Steven Obeegadoo, who is in Seychelles on a working visit, paid a courtesy call to President [...]
A French national severely injured after being bitten by a shark over the weekend is in stable condition, the French ambassador to Seychelles said on Monday. This the first reported shark incident since the fatal shark attacks in the island nation in 2011. The Seychelles Tourism Board (STB) said Sunday that the 45-year-old woman was [...]
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has convened a key meeting of top ruling party officials, state media said Sunday, ahead of a year-end deadline for Washington to shift its stance on stalled nuclear talks. The plenary session, which opened on Saturday, follows widespread speculation that Pyongyang is preparing to test an intercontinental ballistic missile [...]
Think that a fitness gym has to be inside a stuffy building? Think again. The opening of Seychelles' first outdoor gym is encouraging more islanders and visitors to commit to exercise in a green environment with fresh air and the therapeutic sound of waves crashing onto a white sandy beach. The outdoor gym, located at Beau [...]
A massive car bomb exploded in a busy area of Mogadishu on Saturday, leaving at least 79 people dead and scores injured in Somalia's deadliest attack in two years. At least 16 of those killed were students from the capital's private Banadir University, who had been travelling on a bus when the car bomb detonated [...]
A majority of the Seychelles-flagged purse seiners fishing in the island nation's waters have reached their annual yellowfin quota for the year and are awaiting the beginning of the year to resume activities, a top government official said Friday. Eleven out of the 13 Seychelles-flagged vessels are now moored outside of Port Victoria awaiting the [...]
Embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told supporters Friday he would win a March general election after scoring a landslide victory in the leadership primary of his right-wing Likud party. Israel's longest-serving premier, who faces a corruption indictment as well as a third general election in 12 months, was expected to beat rival Gideon Saar [...]
Seychelles’ remote Aldabra Atoll has been recognised as an outstanding marine protected area with a Blue Park designation by the Marine Conservation Institute. Aldabra was awarded the Platinum Level Blue Park status which is the highest level of the award; only 10 sites in the world have this designation. According to the Seychelles Islands Foundation [...]
The Central Bank of Seychelles has decided to maintain its loosened monetary policy stance for the first quarter of 2020, given the modest inflation outlook in the short to medium term, said a top official. The decision means that the monetary policy rate remains at 5 percent for the next three months. The interest rate [...]
