Dozens of African running fans lined Doha's seafront to glimpse their countrymen vie for gold in the World Athletics Championships men's marathon, singing loudly and brandishing national flags. At the halfway point, all six of the leaders were from Africa, and Ethiopians were first and second across the line while a Kenyan picked up bronze [...]
Marie-Jeanne Pathon is the first Seychellois woman working as First Officer with the Inter-Island Boats Ltd, the mother company of ‘Cat Cocos’, one of leading fast ferry operators in Seychelles. Pathon, who has her sights set on becoming a captain, said that she is proud of her achievement and wants to see more women take [...]
The Commonwealth on Friday launched an ideas-sharing network to tackle the effects of climate change through replicable regeneration projects. The 53-country bloc held a two-day brainstorming of indigenous groups, environmentalists, scientists and climate change experts at its headquarters in London. The Common Earth initiative will be a network of projects that can be copied and [...]
Zimbabwe on Friday slammed a US decision to ban its exports of uncut diamonds, saying claims of the gems being extracted by forced labour at a major mining area had a "political agenda". "We have never had anyone, let alone children, forced to work in Marange diamond fields," Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi told AFP. "Zimbabwe [...]
Projects aimed at improving maritime security and the capacity of the police force in Seychelles will be funded through a $7 million grant from the Japanese government. The agreement for the Japan-Seychelles maritime security grant was signed on Thursday by Japanese Ambassador Tominaga Makoto and Seychelles’ Designated Minister Macsuzy Mondon. The grant will cover the reconstruction of [...]
Mayors and local government representatives from the Association of Cities and Communities of the Indian Ocean (AVCOI) are meeting in Seychelles this week. The 50-some delegates including their Seychellois counterparts have converged on the capital city of Victoria for their annual meeting which will end on Friday with their general assembly. Fourteen mayors from Mauritius, Madagascar, Reunion, [...]
Benin's President Patrice Talon on Thursday announced a national "dialogue" with opposition parties to calm a political standoff sparked by their exclusion from elections in April. The one day event -- scheduled for October 10 -- aims to bring together 12 leading political parties "to take part in a political dialogue", the presidency said in [...]
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said he hopes to maintain the political "momentum" to seek a solution to the Western Sahara conflict, despite having not had a special envoy to the region for the past four months. In a report Wednesday, Guterres praised the progress made by the UN's former envoy, Horst Kohler, who left [...]
Members of the Seychelles’ National Assembly (MNAs) have approved the re-opening of negotiations for compensation payments with the construction company and the owner of the building for the victims of the pollution of the waters at La Misere in 2010. All members voted for an urgent motion brought by Waven William, the MNA of the [...]
As part of its ongoing rebranding, Barclays Bank Seychelles will carry out physical changes to the bank next month, including changing the colour scheme from blue to red. The rebranding started last year after the UK-based Barclays sold Barclays Africa Group Limited to the Absa Group from South Africa. Seychelles is among the nine countries from [...]
