The Seychelles’ iconic and unique coco de mer has been turned into an animated character that the creator hopes Seychellois children will relate to. Sam Debey, a digital animator living in the United States, worked on the first episode of the animated series while he was visiting his mother in Seychelles from December to January. [...]
Prime Minister Theresa May will on Wednesday face a confidence vote after MPs overwhelmingly rejected her deal to leave the European Union, leaving Britain with no plan as it hurtles towards Brexit on March 29. May suffered the largest government defeat in modern British history on Tuesday night when the House of Commons rejected by [...]
Gabon's Ali Bongo was back in Libreville on Tuesday after months abroad recovering from a stroke, ending an absence that has spurred political turbulence. Returning from Morocco in the early hours of the morning, Bongo presided over a ceremony at which ministers from the new government were sworn in, officials said. Gabon has been without [...]
Convicts with good behaviour at the Seychelles’ main prison facility will have the opportunity to work on faraway islands through an agreement between the Prison Services and the Islands Development Company (IDC). The announcement was made at a special meeting chaired by the Seychelles’ President Danny Faure on Monday at State House. The agreement is [...]
Renovation work to raise Seychelles’ main water reservoir – La Gogue Dam – in order to increase its capacity is 25 percent complete, but the project is four months behind schedule because of a strike by truckers, the chief executive of the Public Utilities Corporation (PUC) said. Work on the dam, which was built in [...]
Countries neighbouring South Africa have banned the import of cloven-hoofed animals and their products over a foot-and-mouth disease breakout in the northern Limpopo province, government said Monday. On Monday Agriculture Minister Senzeni Zokwana confirmed the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), first identified a week ago in Vhembe district near the border with Zimbabwe. The outbreak [...]
More than 16,000 desalination plants scattered across the globe produce far more toxic sludge than fresh water, according to a first global assessment of the sector's industrial waste, published Monday. For every litre of fresh water extracted from the sea or brackish waterways, a litre-and-a-half of salty slurry, called brine, is dumped directly back into [...]
The customs departments of Seychelles and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will be able to share information on fraud cases after the signing of an agreement later this year, said a top government official. The two countries are expected to sign the Cooperation and Mutual Assistance Agreement to create a customs cooperation administrative framework, given the [...]
The US government shutdown on Saturday became the longest in history and is taking a growing bite out of the world's largest economy with each passing day, economists say. While most of the 21 "lapses" in government spending since 1976 left barely a scratch on economic growth, the length of this shutdown makes it harder [...]
The Seychelles National Parks Authority (SNPA) is in the process of revising entrance fees for national parks to ensure better maintenance and sustainability of parks and trails, the first price increase since 2009. The authority, which becomes financially autonomous this year, conducted a systematic review of its products and services in 2017, which highlighted the [...]
