Seychelles and Cuba are expected to develop a cooperation programme on environment conservation, natural resource management and sustainable fishing following the visit of a Cuban delegation last week. The delegation, which included the director of The Ocean Foundation for the Caribbean Region, Fernando Bretos, the director of the Cuban Protected Area System, Carlos Díaz, met [...]
Airtel Seychelles, a local telecommunications company, has unveiled a new tower built to boost connectivity on the eastern side of the main island of Mahe. The 30 metre-long structure built in the shape of a palm tree was unveiled on Friday at Anse Francois in the Pointe Larue district. Airtel’s managing director, Amadou Dina, said the new [...]
Pope Francis arrives in Mauritius on Monday on the final stop of a three-nation Africa tour where he is expected to celebrate the island nation's tolerance and diversity. The Argentine pontiff will celebrate mass, visit the shrine of a French priest and meet political leaders in a brief stop in the small but religiously mixed [...]
Who is 187 years old and is from Seychelles? The answer, according to Guinness World Records, is Jonathan, the world's oldest animal on land. Jonathan is an endemic Seychelles land tortoise who currently resides on the remote island of St Helena. Transported there under the British administration in 1882, Jonathan was officially recognized as the [...]
Flags flew at half mast in Harare on Saturday, but a day after former president Robert Mugabe's death many Zimbabweans preferred to work as usual than publicly mourn the independence hero turned despot. President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced a period of national mourning on Friday following Mugabe's death in Singapore at the age of 95, two [...]
What's the proper way to identify a plant? Is it by the looking at the flowers, leaves or both? A recent series of training courses in Seychelles is helping environmental enthusiasts to identify native and non-native plants using an online platform. During the biological photography session, participants learned how to identify native and non-native plants by using the Seychelles [...]
True to his reputation as "pope of the poor", Pope Francis begins a visit Saturday to Madagascar, one of the world's most impoverished nations. Arriving from Mozambique, where he pleaded for understanding and the renunciation of violence in a country riven by 16 years of civil war and now hit by jihadist attacks, the Argentine [...]
The President of Seychelles, Danny Faure has sent his condolences to his counterpart in Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, following the death of Robert Mugabe, the former President, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Friday. “On behalf of the government and the people of Seychelles, I wish to extend our most sincere condolences to you personally, to [...]
A group of Seychellois secondary school students is participating in an immersive introduction to coding and programming taking place during the holiday break at Beau Vallon secondary school. The Coding Boot Camp from September 2 to 6 is being organised by Round Table Seychelles in partnership with Absa Group Limited – currently operating in the country as [...]
Robert Mugabe, the former guerrilla leader who held onto power in Zimbabwe for 37 years until forced out by the military with the economy mired in crisis, has died aged 95, the country's president announced Friday. "It is with the utmost sadness that I announce the passing on of Zimbabwe's founding father and former President... [...]
