The President of Seychelles has called on leaders and the world to pay attention and take action against climate change. Danny Faure spoke at the official opening of the United Nations 2019 Climate Action Summit and at a high-level event for leaders. Faure told the summit and the panel discussion that the environment must be protected at all [...]
The public and private sectors in Seychelles will benefit from technical assistance, capacity building and better protection for products after the Cabinet of Ministers approved the island nation joining a regional intellectual property organisation. The Cabinet of Ministers last week approved for the 115-island archipelago of the western Indian Ocean to join the African Regional [...]
Google is not required to apply an EU "right to be forgotten" to its search engine domains outside Europe, the EU's top court ruled Tuesday in a landmark decision. The European Court of Justice handed victory to Google in the case, seen as crucial in determining whether EU online regulation should apply beyond Europe's borders [...]
Negotiations for a new ‘Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement and Protocol’ between Seychelles and the European Union (EU) will go into a third-round in October to address remaining issues, the fisheries ministry said on Monday. A delegation led by Charles Bastienne, the Minister for Fisheries and Agriculture, attended the second negotiation in Brussels from September 17-20. It followed [...]
Ghana's security forces have arrested at least three suspects over an alleged plot to destabilise the government, the information minister said. "The joint operation was to neutralise an elaborate plot targeted at the presidency, and with the ultimate aim of destabilising the country," Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said in a statement Monday. He said those arrested [...]
Seychelles is honoured to join a newly launched coalition pushing for the ambitious target for the protection of 30 percent of the planet Earth by the end of the next decade, President Danny Faure said in New York on Monday. Faure made the statement in an address at the launch of the High Ambition Coalition [...]
The Seychelles’ Constitutional Appointment Authority (CAA) said that the correct procedures have been followed to appoint a Ugandan Judge to the island nation’s Court of Appeal, despite the appointment being met with controversy in Uganda. Speaking to SNA, the executive secretary of CAA, Iqbal Ibrahim, said on Monday that due diligence has been done for the [...]
Some 60 world leaders convene on Monday for a UN summit on "climate emergency" aimed at reinvigorating the faltering Paris agreement, at a time when mankind is releasing more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than at any time in history. From heat waves to slow-crawling hurricanes to rapidly acidifying oceans, the impacts of global warming [...]
In a bid to further preserve its rich history and heritage, Seychelles has joined UNESCO’s Memory of the World programme. An inventory of all institutions with documentation of historical and heritage value is the first exercise that will take place. Seychelles is the third of 13 countries in the region to benefit from a capacity building [...]
British travel group Thomas Cook on Monday declared bankruptcy after failing to reach a last-ditch rescue deal, triggering the UK's biggest repatriation since World War II to bring back stranded passengers. The 178-year-old operator had been desperately seeking £200 million ($250 million, 227 million euros) from private investors to save it from collapse. "Despite considerable [...]
