Over 200 kg of food was distributed to around 35 families in the Seychelles’ eastern Mahe district of Roche Caiman on Sunday as part of the “Don’t Waste, Eat!“ food waste reduction programme’. Families received vegetables, fruits and other food products which included pastries, cakes and bread. The donations were made by SPAR supermarket and a number [...]
Five Sudanese protesters and an army major were shot dead Monday in the capital, hours after protest leaders and the ruling generals reached a breakthrough agreement on transitional authorities to run the country. The latest developments came as the prosecutor general's office said ousted president Omar al-Bashir had been charged over the killings of protesters [...]
‘Mouvman Kreol Seselwa’ - a new movement in Seychelles - wants to empower, protect and preserve the Seychellois Creole identity. The movement, as it is referred to, said that overall it seeks to promote the welfare and socio-economic wellbeing of the Seychellois Creoles by uplifting them in all spheres of life. Cyril Lau Tee, the chair [...]
Saudi Arabia said Monday two of its oil tankers were damaged in "sabotage attacks" in the Gulf as tensions soared in a region already shaken by a standoff between the United States and Iran. It came as US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo scrapped a planned visit to Moscow to head to Brussels instead for [...]
Environmental volunteers collected over 10 tonnes of waste that washed ashore on eight remote islands of Seychelles in the first-ever-large-scale clean-up of the Indian Ocean nation's outer isles, an effort that showed that large portions of the trash emanated from foreign countries. Litter was collected over 10 days across the islands of Astove, Alphonse, Farquar, Desroches, Poivre, [...]
With the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle at the centre, France and India on Friday stepped up their biggest naval exercises as the Indian Ocean's strategic shipping lanes draw ever more envious eyes. Without naming the Asian giant, India and France worry about China's growing economic clout and its territorial claims that have caused tensions [...]
The discovery of a new nest of the Seychelles’ critically endangered bird, the paradise flycatcher, in an unusual tree is a positive sign that the species is recovering, said the Seychelles National Parks Authority (SNPA). For the first time, a new nest built by a pair of paradise flycatchers, known as veuve, was spotted in [...]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls it the defining issue of our time: climate change is moving to the center stage at the United Nations, three years after the Paris agreement went into force. A major UN push for progress on climate change kicks off next week when Guterres travels to New Zealand and several Pacific [...]
Seychelles expects to have a national strategy that will guide the implementation of financial technology by the end of the year, said a top official of the Central Bank. To pave the way for the formulation of the strategy, a three-day working session was organised this week under the theme ‘Building a Fintech Platform for [...]
Representatives from Seychelles and other African states shared experiences and identified challenges and opportunities in the Blue Economy in a regional conference hosted by the island nation for the first time. The regional African island state conference organised from May 7-9 was hosted under the theme ‘Creating a sustainable future of work and just transition towards [...]
