Efforts are underway to develop a fire contingency plan for Seychelles’ third-most populated island of Praslin. Two firefighters from Reunion – a French department in the Indian Ocean - conducted an audit and needs assessment inventory of gaps and needs of the agencies on the island end of February. The experts also conducted terrain and [...]
Ethiopia will observe a national day of mourning Monday as investigators search for bodies and clues into the crash of a Nairobi-bound Boeing minutes after takeoff from Addis Ababa, killing all 157 people on board. Ethiopian Airlines said it will work with Boeing, the national civil aviation authority and international experts in trying to unravel [...]
Seychelles' coco de mer covered in snow? The tropical animals and plants found in Seychelles are not likely to be exposed to the extreme cold anytime soon, but a snow sculpture competition in China put the island nation's warm-weather fauna and flora into snowman territory. Visitors to the Heilongjiang Provincial College Snow Sculpture Competition had [...]
Frangeline is aged two but weighs no more than a four-month-old -- the terrible result of her battle with measles, which is cutting a deadly swathe through Madagascar. Widespread malnutrition and low rates of immunisation on the Indian Ocean island have ramped up the killing power of the highly infectious virus. In the last six [...]
Four athletes from Seychelles will participate in the 2019 Special Olympics World Games in Abu Dhabi from March 14-21. The four athletes left the country on Friday. They are: Suzy Sarakiya and Roland Jeannevol for athletics and Janet Marie and Daniel Accouche for swimming under the guidance of the head of the delegation, Brian Camille. Speaking [...]
Tens of thousands protested across Algeria on Friday in the biggest rallies yet against ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's bid for a fifth term, despite the defiant leader's warning of the risk of "chaos". A march in the capital Algiers was slowed to a near-crawl by the huge numbers taking part, swelled by women marking International [...]
The Seychelles’ Supreme Court on Friday sentenced the captain of a Sri Lankan fishing vessel $14,600 (SCR200,000) for illegal fishing in the Seychelles’ waters. The Sri Lankan national, Kaluharath Keerthirathan, pleaded guilty to the charge of fishing without a foreign licence on November 5, 2018. The captain has a month to pay the fine [...]
The President of Seychelles has called on the island nation “to celebrate women’s contributions and stand up for women’s rights.” In a message to commemorate International Women’s Day on Friday, President Danny Faure said Seychellois are joining the rest of the world to celebrate the achievements of women everywhere and reaffirm collective commitment to gender [...]
Emotional relatives of those aboard Flight MH370 Friday demanded answers to one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries and called for the hunt to resume, five years on from the plane's disappearance. The Malaysia Airlines jet vanished on March 8, 2014 carrying 239 people -- mostly from China -- en route from Kuala Lumpur to [...]
Canvases with scribbles of words or scenes from the streets are what visitors can see at a five-piece exhibition by Seychellois contemporary artist Leon Radegonde. Called ‘échantillons,’ meaning samples, the exhibition is currently being showcased until March 8 at the Alliance Française in the central district of Mont Fleuri. The exhibition got its name from the pieces [...]
