Seychelles' third most important island – La Digue – will for the first time this year host the prestigious fashion event, showcasing uprising Seychellois fashion designers during the annual Creole Festival. The announcement was made by the Creative Industries and National Events Agency (CINEA) during a press conference on Tuesday called to unveil details of the [...]
The EU removed Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates from its list of tax havens on Thursday, giving two global hubs for multinational tax schemes the all clear. "Albania, Costa Rica, Mauritius, Serbia and Switzerland have implemented ahead of their deadline all necessary reforms to comply with EU tax good governance principles," the bloc's 28 [...]
French President Emmanuel Macron urged donor nations Thursday to replenish the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, warning that gains made in rolling back the killer diseases risked being reversed due to donor fatigue. The UN objective of ending epidemics of the three ailments by 2030 remained within reach, he told a two-day [...]
Victoria is the capital and only city of Seychelles – 115 islands in the western Indian Ocean, located on the north-eastern side of the main island of Mahe. The area that would become Victoria was originally settled in 1778 by the French colonists after they claimed the island in 1756. The town was called L'Etablissement until 1841 when it [...]
Seychelles' Fregate Island has made CNN Travel's list of the Top Ten most beautiful islands in the world. CNN Travel described the privately-owned island as “lapped by the Indian Ocean in a dozen hues, Fregate is a taste of Seychelles at their dreamiest.” Fregate is the easternmost of Seychelles' granitic Inner Islands, located 55 km east of the main island of Mahé. “Wild landscapes [...]
Turkey has launched a broad assault on Kurdish-controlled areas in northeastern Syria, with intensive bombardment followed by a ground offensive made possible by the withdrawal of US troops. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Wednesday the start of the attack on Twitter and soon after jets and artillery targeted Kurdish positions along the full width of [...]
Seychelles' waste-management practices are being studied by European and Japanese experts in order to find areas in which to improve. The experts presented their preliminary findings with all partners on Wednesday. The ongoing studies are looking at how Seychelles is managing waste and the plan that should be adopted for the way forward. The studies also [...]
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday unveiled a record budget plan to lawmakers, ramping up ambitious spending goals for his second term in charge. The draft budget increased more than 13 percent from last year at 10.33 trillion naira -- around $33.8 billion (30.8 billion euros) at an official exchange rate of 305 naira to [...]
Seychelles need to raise awareness on the risks associated with off-shore banking and set up legislation to fix loopholes within financial regulatory systems, said a top American official on Tuesday. The United States’ Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing at the Department of Treasury, Marshall Billingslea, told reporters that awareness needs to be raised in particular on [...]
Ecuadoran protesters broke into the country's Congress building on Monday as demonstrations over a fuel hike introduced by President Lenin Moreno's government intensified. Demonstrators, many of them indigenous men armed with sticks and whips, surged through a security cordon. They rushed into the meeting room and occupied the podium, but were soon evicted by security [...]
