The hand-picked successor of Kazakhstan's longtime ruler has won a sweeping victory in a presidential election, authorities said on Monday, after a voting day marred by protests and arrests. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev took 70.8 percent of the vote in Sunday's election, the Central Election Commission said, with his nearest rival, opposition candidate Amirzhan Kosanov, taking 16.2 [...]
Protecting the ocean and marine life is a collective world effort and everyone has a role to play, said the President of Seychelles, Danny Faure, at Ireland’s largest maritime festival -- SeaFest -- State House said on Sunday. At the invitation of the Irish government, Faure delivered his address at the Wild Atlantic theatre in Cork [...]
Several thousand demonstrators marched through Port-au-Prince on Sunday to demand the resignation of Haitian President Jovenel Moise over allegations of embezzlement. Led by dozens of protesters on motorcycles, the mostly youthful demonstrators filled city center streets in a rally organized by opposition parties and civil society groups. Amid a heavy police presence, the marchers erected [...]
Female Seychelles warblers have been found to age slower and live longer when they have help raising offspring, new research conducted on Cousin Island Special Reserve shows. This finding was made during a study carried out by researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, in collaboration [...]
Indian leader Narendra Modi on Saturday inaugurated a coastal radar system and military training centre in the Maldives on Saturday, as New Delhi seeks to fend off Chinese influence in the strategically-placed nation. The Maldives, a low-lying archipelago of more than a thousand tiny coral islands south of the Indian subcontinent, straddles the world's busiest [...]
The government of Seychelles will bear the cost to repatriate the body of an Iranian sailor after post-mortem and embalming, the Supreme Court ruled earlier this week. The case relates to Abed Raz, an Iranian national who died at the Seychelles Hospital on March 5h from injuries sustained when the vessel he was on, MUBARAK, caught fire [...]
Three top chefs from London are participating in an initiative of Hilton Seychelles in which the history of the island nation is being explored through a gastronomic event called ‘A Treasure Trail of Taste’. To kick off the event - and to commemorate Levasseur originally sailing under the British flag with fellow pirates -- Hilton [...]
An estimated 115 million boys and men worldwide were married as children, 23 million of them before the age of 15, the UN children's agency said Friday in the first ever in-depth study of child grooms. The Central African Republic has the highest prevalence of child marriage among males, at 28 percent, followed by Nicaragua [...]
British Prime Minister Theresa May steps down as leader of her Conservative Party on Friday, formally triggering the race for a successor who will try where she failed to deliver Brexit. May will remain prime minister until a new leader is chosen, likely in late July, but has relinquished control over the direction of Britain's [...]
The President of Seychelles, Danny Faure, gave his second live press conference of the year at State House on Thursday. SNA presents an overview of the issues raised. The President’s connection with the United Seychelles Party and candidacy for the next election Faure’s response was that he had never said that he is not a member [...]
