The former President of Seychelles, James Michel, has been admitted as a full member of the World Leadership Alliance Club de Madrid, a press communique from his office said on Wednesday. In a letter formally welcoming Michel to the club, the group’s leader, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, who was the former President of Latvia, thanked him for accepting [...]
Seychelles’ former tourism minister, Alain St Ange, has been named the new president of the African Tourism Board. St Ange will head a team of tourism experts in Africa to help create a unified destination concept for Africa. The announcement was made April 11 at the World Trade Market Africa held in Cape Town, South [...]
Sustainable management of forests and bioenergy assessment with capacity building in Seychelles are two new projects being supported by the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO). The first project will allow authorities to draft a new national forest policy and legislation that will also ensure better monitoring of the island nation’s forests. [...]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday appointed an envoy to Sudan to work with the African Union on mediating an end to the crisis sparked by a military takeover. Nicholas Haysom, a South African lawyer who has served as UN envoy in Somalia, Afghanistan as well as for Sudan and South Sudan, will support AU-led [...]
Members of Egypt's parliament on Tuesday approved changes to the constitution that will allow President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to stay in power until 2030, state media reported. The changes to extend presidential terms are part of amendments initially introduced in February by a parliamentary bloc supportive of Sisi and updated this week after several rounds [...]
The Seychelles’ Supreme Court on Tuesday convened for the first time in a case brought by President Danny Faure against the Speaker of the National Assembly in relation to a disagreement between the two concerning a salary increase for government employees. Presided over by Justice Melchior Vidot, the Court heard two applications made by Faure’s legal team [...]
Air Mauritius says it intends to resume connecting flights to Seychelles in July, the Seychelles Civil Aviation Authority said on Tuesday, a move that increases the competitive pressure on Air Seychelles. Speaking to SNA, the Authority said that Air Mauritius would be providing services on the two days -- Mondays and Sundays -- that Air Seychelles [...]
Major infrastructures on the island of Farquhar have been repaired and made cyclone-proof almost three years after Fantala, a tropical cyclone, hit the outer island, said the head of the Islands Development Company (IDC). The IDC’s chief executive, Glenny Savy, told SNA that the company “concentrated on the infrastructure that we need for commercial purposes, [...]
French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to rebuild Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, after a colossal fire tore through the building, sending the spire crashing to the ground and wiping out centuries of heritage. Macron expressed relief that "the worst had been avoided" in a blaze that had at one point threatened the entire edifice, and [...]
Climate change protesters brought a bridge in London to a standstill on Monday and blocked major roads in the capital, kicking off days of planned civil disobedience events in cities around the world. More than a thousand people blocked off Waterloo Bridge and laid out trees and potted plants along its length, in the protests [...]
