The Seychelles Ports Authority is working with port users on new measures to reduce congestion at Port Victoria when expansion work starts next year, said a top official. “We want to see if there are things that could be changed to allow faster clearance of containers which is now a major problem,” said Franky Laporte, [...]
The presidents of Burundi and Somalia on Tuesday called for an urgent summit to discuss the contested withdrawal of 1,000 Burundian troops from Somalia before the end of the month. The African Union is gradually scaling back its Amisom force in troubled Somalia, and announced late last year that the Burundian soldiers must leave by [...]
Cinnamon: warm, spicy and aromatic. It's one of the world’s most-used spices. Renowned for its bark and used as an essential oil, it is used as medicine, in food and in beauty products. Once a pillar of the Seychelles’ economy, the plant is today considered as an invasive species as it can be seen all [...]
Double Olympic 800 metres champion Caster Semenya said Tuesday that proposed rules that would oblige her to lower her testosterone levels "do not empower anyone". The South African appeared Monday at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne at the start of a landmark hearing to challenge the rules proposed by the International Association [...]
The importance of the Commonwealth to ensuring good governance and the respect of human rights was the focus of discussions between the Seychelles’ President and a delegation from the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) on Tuesday. The delegation met with Faure at State House in the capital, Victoria. The head of the delegation, Tessa Blackstone, said [...]
Uganda's ruling party has endorsed President Yoweri Museveni, 74, as its candidate in 2021 elections, which could see him seek a sixth term in office, a party resolution said Wednesday. The National Resistance Movement (NRM) called for Museveni to "continue leading the movement and the state in 2021 and beyond to eliminate bottlenecks to transformation." [...]
Seychelles has launched a policy that will guide how researchers and foreign institutions can access the country’s genetic resources and the local knowledge associated with their traditional use. Under the Convention on Biological Diversity -- an international treaty signed by 198 countries including Seychelles -- genetic resources are any material of plant, animal, microbial or [...]
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called on India and Pakistan to take immediate steps to defuse tensions and offered to help broker a solution if both sides agree. The two countries have been locked in a diplomatic clash following a suicide attack on February 14 in Kashmir that killed 40 Indian security personnel, [...]
Projects of public interest remain the main focus of the Indo-Seychelles bilateral relations, India’s new Joint Secretary for the Indian Ocean region said on Tuesday. Currently on his first official visit in Seychelles, Dinesh Patnaik told the press that during his meeting with President Danny Faure at State House, Victoria, the two diplomats discussed the [...]
Maldives authorities on Monday detained former strongman president Abdulla Yameen after he was accused of trying to bribe witnesses in his money laundering trial, officials said. The arrest came after a court began a preliminary hearing into allegations that Yameen received nearly $1.5 million in illicit payments just before he lost his re-election bid in [...]
