With the world's forests increasingly under threat from climate change and logging, leaders and top bank chiefs pledged billions on Thursday to help reverse the steep decline in Africa's woodland areas. So far this century East Africa alone has lost around 6 million hectares of forest, swathes of which contain plants and wildlife found nowhere [...]
The President of Seychelles, Danny Faure, is on an official visit to Saudi Arabia, State House said on Monday. No further details were given on the presidential visit. Faure will be back in the office on Friday, March 22. Seychelles, an archipelago in the western Indian Ocean, and Saudi Arabia established diplomatic relations in 2000 and have since enjoyed [...]
The United Nations on Monday urged the Democratic Republic of Congo's new President Felix Tshisekedi to quickly form a new government, warning that voters had "huge expectations" from the leadership change and should not be let down. Tshisekedi's party is working to cobble together a coalition government with the party of former president Joseph Kabila, [...]
More than 120 people have died and many more are missing in Mozambique and neighbouring Zimbabwe on Sunday after tropical cyclone Idai barrelled across the southern African nations with flash floods and ferocious winds. Authorities in Mozambique said the toll there had risen to 62 in the centre of the country, while Zimbabwe said 65 [...]
Seychelles will receive assistance from the Indonesian National Narcotics Agency to help rehabilitate the users of illegal drugs under a newly signed Memorandum of Understanding. The agreement was signed on Monday by Patrick Herminie, the Secretary of State for the prevention of drug abuse and rehabilitation, and Heru Winarko, the chief of the Indonesian National Narcotics Agency. [...]
A six-month moratorium on the recruitment of Bangladeshi nationals coming to work in Seychelles because of allegations of abuse at the workplace is still in place, said a top official on Monday. Jules Baker, the principal secretary of employment, told the press that until an agreement is signed between Seychelles and Bangladesh the moratorium remains and if [...]
Black box data recovered from an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed last week show "clear similarities" with a recent crash in Indonesia of the same type of aircraft, Ethiopia's transport minister said on Sunday. While declining to give details, Dagmawit Moges told journalists the parallels would be the "subject of further study during the investigation," [...]
The population of tropicbirds is declining in Seychelles, in part because of attacks on nests by predators, a recent study found. Scientists from the Queens College in Oxford started to study the two species of the bird – red-tailed tropicbird and the white-tailed tropicbird - in 2017. The study of the birds -- which are native to [...]
New Zealanders flocked to memorial sites to lay flowers and mourn the victims of the twin mosque massacres Sunday, as testimony emerged of epic heroism and harrowing suffering in the gun attack that has claimed 50 lives. Police Commissioner Mike Bush said officers had finally been able to share a list of victims with families, [...]
A first-ever large-scale cleanup of Seychelles’ outer islands that are managed by the Islands Development Company (IDC) will take place from March 18-31. Forty volunteers will clean eight IDC-managed islands -- Astove, Alphonse, Farquar, Desroches, Poivre, Remire, Coetivy, and Platte -- over 10 days. In a meeting with the volunteers on Monday, IDC’s chief executive, Glenny Savy, [...]
