People taking a small boat to travel to this year’s Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary should not board without a life jacket, a high official emphasised on Monday. The event will take place on August 15 on La Digue, Seychelles’ third-most populated island. Seychelles’ security officials are joining forces to increase safety for the event. [...]
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will on Wednesday meet leaders in Northern Ireland, the key battleground in Britain's fight to leave the European Union and the focus of increasingly tense rhetoric on both sides of the Irish Sea. He arrived in Belfast on Tuesday night amid warnings from Irish leaders that his vow to leave [...]
Cambodia fined a company more than $250,000 for shipping 1,600 tonnes of plastic waste from the US and Canada, an official said Tuesday, as Southeast Asian countries hit back against an influx of rubbish. China's decision to ban foreign plastic waste imports last year threw global recycling into chaos as shipping containers filled with trash [...]
The first government housing estate outfitted with photovoltaic (PV) solar panels has opened in Seychelles. The Barbarons Transit Homes estate was inaugurated over the weekend and represents the first step in the democratisation of solar PV panels to 700 families in the nation by the Public Utilities Corporation (PUC). Philip Morin, the chief executive of [...]
Seychelles is taking another step to support freedom of speech by approving regulations to designate an area where open-air public speaking, debate and discussion are allowed. The Deputy Cabinet Secretary for Institutional Affairs, Johny Bastienne, said on Thursday that the new regulations “will provide an area in law to give everyone an equal chance to exercise [...]
Morocco's King Mohammed VI has marked 20 years on the throne by pardoning thousands of prisoners, including some from the "Hirak" protest movement that rocked the country in 2016. On the eve of the royal anniversary on Tuesday, an official statement announced 4,764 people were to be pardoned including some detained during the months of [...]
Athletes on Team Seychelles at the Indian Ocean Island Games in Mauritius were welcomed home by the President of Seychelles at the international airport of Pointe Larue on Monday. Team Seychelles won a total of 110 medals -- 28 gold, 32 silver and 50 bronze -- taking fourth place on the medals table. Faure congratulated Team [...]
Art lovers in Seychelles are mourning the loss of one of the best visual artists and painter in the island nation. Allen Ernesta was well known for his works depicting the island nation’s way of life, its beautiful sceneries and landscapes as well architectures. Ernesta, who passed away unexpectedly last week was laid to rest [...]
An attack this weekend by Boko Haram fighters on a funeral in northeast Nigeria has left 65 people dead, almost triple the initial toll, a local official said Sunday. Dozens more bodies were discovered following the assault Saturday by gunmen on a village close to the regional capital Maiduguri. "It is 65 people dead and [...]
The President of the Maldives, Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, will arrive in Seychelles on a two-day state visit on August 2, the Department of Foreign Affairs said. The Maldivian President will be accompanied on his visit by a high-level delegation which will include three ministers. During his visit, Solih will meet with President Danny Faure where the [...]
